Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-07-14

Fast trains virtually draw Chicago
and New York 100 miles closer to-
gether than they have ever been be-
fore. A Chicago man is now able to
go 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 a Michi-
gan summer home and get back as
quickly.
With a regular train covering nearly
a thousand miles at an average speed
Of more than fifty-four miles an hour.
the American railroad sets a pace for
all the roads OF the world. There are
no fast European trains which run so
great a 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 run
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. It's 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
4 speed Of more than eighty miles an
hour to cover the $50 miles in 1850
minutes. Recently on its regular run
from the East to Chicago the Twentf-
eth Century limited ran from Toledo,
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 o5 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 10 railroad has attempt
ed to maintain schedule Of less than
twenty hours between Chicago and
New York. During the Worlds Fair
IN 1893 the New York Central EXPOSE
ton Flyer" ran for 10S days on
twenty 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 4OO-mile
train in the world while the Twent-
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-Car-
isle express. This Is q train which
makes its 30O-mile journey without a
single stop. 1t has the right Of way
over all other traffic. and is forced to
run the 800 miles in just four hours,
Or st the rate Of seventy-fve 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
LondOnAberdeen run is the longest
possible in Great Britain.
The Great Western Railroad Of Eng
land runs a 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 Northerns London
Dorchester train is fifty-tive-mile an
hour train, While the London rewe
train runs ffty-four miles an hour.
There is an express train which runs
between London and Wakefield that
travels at the rate of 800 miles per
hour, while a London-Sheffield train Is
scheduled at ffty-fye miles per hour.
Paris has several worldfamous
trains but none that equals the sched-
ME Of the two new ChicagoNew 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-eiSht miles per hour and
two trains whose speed exceeds sixty
miles per hour. These trains do not
run great distances.