Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-08-12

and New York 100 miles closer to-
gether than they have ever been be-
fore. A Chicago man Is now able to
60 to New York and spend an entire
day there and lose only that day from
his business in Chicago. He is able
! to go to New York and spend almost
as much time as he could at Michi-
gan summer home and get back as
! quickly.
With regular train covering nearly
a thousand miles at an average speed
of more than fifty-four miles an hour,
the American railroad sets q pace for
all the roads of the world. There are
no fast European trains which run so
great distance. Even the world ia
nous LondOn-Aberdeen train, which
! travels the 523 miles between the two
/ cities at the rate Of sixty miles an
hour, is outdone by the new eighteen
/ hour American trains, which on the
west end of the run will maintain the
siXty-mile an hour rate, and at times
will run much faster than that
The New York Central and Lake
/ Shore lines have now reduced the rum
ming time of the Twentieth Century
limited train from twenty hours to
regular schedule of eighteen hours. AS
the Pennsylvania Railroad runs, it Is
eO5 miles from Chicago to New York.
The running time between the two
cities on this road Is eighteen hours.
Goes Like the Wind.
The New York Central eighteen hour
train, however, travels much faster
than the Pennsylvania train, for its
route is $50 miles long. Its average
running time is 54.4 miles per hour.
not taking into consideration loss of
time for stops. The New York Central
/ train frequently Is compelled to reach
speed of more than eighty miles an
I hour to cover the $50 miles In 1850
minutes. Recently on its regular run
from the East to Chicago the Twenti-
eth Century limited ran from Toledo,
i Ohio, to Elkhart, Ind, 100 miles, in
100 minutes. From Elkhart to Chicago
the train covered the 101 miles, max
Ing five full stops In 95 minutes. Last
year this same train made the run
from New York to Chicago, $50 miles,
in fifteen hours and forty-five minutes.
Railroad men say that the schedule
may be cut to seventeen and then to
sixteen hours.
Heretofore no, railroad has attempt,
ed to maintain a schedule of less than
/ twenty hours between Chicago AMI
! New York. During the Worlds Fair
In 1898 the New York Central "Exposi-
ton Flyer" ran for 10S days on
twentZ-hour schedule and three years
ago the same road inaugurated the
twenty-hour schedule for It's "Twenti-
eth Century limited" This roads
Empire State Express" has for four
teen years been the fastest 40O-mile
train in the world, while the Twenti-
eth Century limited has been the fast
est thOusand-mile train.
| The only train In the world which
runs at a faster speed than the two
! Chicago trains run is the London-Ca
isle express. This Is a train which
makes Its 3OO-mile journey without
single stop. 1t has the right of way
over all other traffic, and is forced to
run the 300 miles in just four hours,
or at the rate of seventy-five miles an
| hour. The London-Aberdeen train,
which Is considered a more marvellous
speedmaker in that it travels farther
than the Carlisle train, maintains its
schedule of one mile a minute for 523
miles. England is famous for its fast
trains, but the trains that run out of
London do not travel such great dis
tances as do the American trains. The
London-Aberdeen run is the longest
possible In Great Britain.
The Great Western Railroad of Eng
land runs q train from London to
Exeter at the rate of 55.3 miles an
hour, while the London and North
Westerns Manchester train maintains
schedule Of fifty-three miles per
hour. The Great Northern's London.
Dorchester train is fifty-five-mile an
hour train, while the London-Crewe
train runs fifty-four miles an hour
There Is an express train which runs
between London and Wakefield that
travels at the rate OF 55.5 miles per
hour, while a London Sheffield train Is
scheduled at fifty-fve miles per hour
| Paris has several world-famous
trains, but none that equals the sched-
ule of the two new Chicago-New York
flyers. On the Nord Railroad. between
Paris and Calais, there is one train
scheduled at 5S.4 miles per hour. This
train, however, makes a run of only
1S5 miles. The Northern France Road
has eight trains daily whose speed ex-
ceeds fifty eight miles per hour and
two trains whose speed exceeds sixty
miles per hour. These trains do not
run great distances.
For a short time a acknowledgements
train maintained a schedule of 63.3
miles per hour. The distance is 2i6
miles. The entire run was made III
! 233 minutes.