Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-06-23
BEATS ALL RECORDS.
CENTURY LIMITED
GOES LIKE THE WIND.
New York Central-Lake Shore Flyer
Makes IS-Hour Run Between New
York and Chicago with Time to Burn
Net Schedule Is 16 Hours.

Annihilating all records for time and
speed on this continent, the Twentieth
Century Limited train, west bound,
rolled into the La Sale street station
at Chicago at S:25 o'clock Monday, just
seventeen hours and ffty-fve minutes
after leaving New York:
The "Million-Dollar Train" covered
the 966 miles between seaboard and
great lakes in an actual running time
Of seventeen hours and nine minutes
a new record in railroad history.
The east-bound train from Chicago
whipped its five palatial coaches into
the Grand Central Station in New
York at 9:25 o'clock, New York time,
S:25 o'clock Chicago time, five minutes
ahead Of schedule.
Pulled by engine 1865, the same
mammoth mogul that started the New
York Limited on it's thousand mile
run, the Chicago flyer covered six
miles between Osceola and Mishawaka
in less than five minutes and covered
the 1O1 miles between Elkhart and Chi
cago, including stops at Grand Cross
ing and South Chicago, in little less
than two hours.
The readbeds Of the Lake Shore and
New York Central lines are so nearly
perfect and the interlocking semaphore
and track guarding systems so delicate
~ adjusted that Assistant General Pas
senger Agent Frank J. Wolfe declared
the faster schedules could be establish
ed with perfect safety.
Seventeen hours between New York
and Chicago could be established as a
daily running schedule by the Twenti-
eth Century Limited tomorrow" said
W. II. Marshall, general manager. Both
trains, arriving in Chicago and New
York were under strict orders to slow
down to schedule time. Were it not
for the fact that these orders were
marked must" and imperative" our
eager engineers would have smashed
time tables, time records and all the
fast running marks in railroad prece-
dence to smithereens. Seventeen or
possibly sixteen hour trains can be put
on by the Twentieth Century's owners
if the travelling public wants them"
Mile Minute Flat.
From Buffalo to Syracuse, distance
of $50 miles, was covered in $50 min
utes fat. Between Elkhart and To-
ledo, 1884 miles, the actual running
time was 1919 minutes. Toledo to
Cleveland, 1913 miles were run in 105
minutes.
The engines used between Chicago
and Buffalo were Of the Prairie type
and average ninety-fve tons. From
Buffalo to New York the Atlantic type
was used, which averaged ITO tons.
Railroad men who accompanied both
trains declare it was the greatest test
of steam and rails ever made in the
United States. BY the establishment
of the new schedule on the Lake
Shore, Chicago and New York now
have regular eighteen-hour trains be-
tween them.
The remarkable success of the two
Lake Shore trains has demonstrated,
railroad officials say, that the Lake
Shore could without difficulty reduce
the schedule to sixteen hours, and
some Of the more enthusiastic even de-
clare the time can be reduced safely to
fourteen hours.
The run both east and west was
made easily on schedule time. Both
trains arrived al division points ahead
Of time and were held back to schedule
On departure. Spurts of speed at the
rate Of 100 miles an hour were made,
yet the passengers would have been
unconscious Of this nsational eating
up of space had they not looked out of
the windows Of the cars at the blur of
landscape.