The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-08-11

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and New York 100 miles closer to
gether than they have ever been be
fore. A Chicago man IL now able I,
| 60 to New York and spend an entir
day there and lose only that day from
MS business in Chicago. He IL abb
to 90 to New York and spend almos
as much time as he could at Michi
gan summer home and get back a,
quickly.
/ With a regular train covering nearly
thousand miles at an average spee(
OF more than fifty-four miles an hour
the American railroad sets a pace fol
all the roads of the world. There arr
no fast European trains which run &C
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
VIII 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 a
regular schedule Of eighteen hours. As
the Pennsylvania Railroad runs. It is
POS 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 it's
route is $50 miles long. Its average
running time is ga miles per hour.
not taking into consideration loss Of
time for stops. The New York Central
train frequently is compelled to reach
a speed Of more than eighty miles an
hour to cover the $50 miles in 1.O8O
minutes. Recently on its regular run
from the East to Chicago the Twenti-
eth Century limited ran from Toledo.
Ohio. to Eikhart, Ind. 100 miles, in
100 minutes. From Elkhart to Chicago
the train covered the 1O1 miles, max
Ing hve full stops, in 93 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 EXPOSE
ton Flyer ran for 1O8 days on
schedule, and three years
ago the same road inaugurated the
twenty-hour schedule for its "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 Twenti- |
eth Century limited has been the fast
est thOusand-mile train.
The only train In the world which |
runs at faster speed than the two
Chicago trains run is the London Car.
isle express. This is a train which
makes its 30O-mile journey without a
Jingle stop. 1t has the right Of way
over all other traffic, and is forced to
run the 300 miles in Just four hours.
" at the rate Of seventy five miles an
hour. The London-Aberdeen train,
which Is considered a more marvellous
'peedmaker in that 1t travels farther
han the Carlisle train, maintains itx
schedule of one mile a minute for b23
niles. England is famous for its fast
rains, but the trains that run out of
london do not travel such great dis
ances as do the American trains. The
4ondOn-Aberdeen run Is the longest
'ossible in Great Britain.
The Great Western Railroad of Eng
md runs a train from London to
Exeter at the rate Of $50 miles an
our, while the London and North
Westerns Manchester train maintains
schedule Of flfty-three miles per
our. The Great Northern's London.
train Is fifty-fve-mile an
our train, while the London rewe
rain runs fifty-four miles an hour.
'heere Is an express train which runs
etween London and Wakefield that
ravels at the rate of 55.5 miles Der
our, while London Sheffield train Is
cheduled at fifty-five miles per hour.
Paris has several world famous
rains. but none that equals the sched-
lie Of the two new Chicago-New York
yers. On the Nord Railroad. between
'aris and Calais, there 10 one train
cheduled at 58.4 miles per hour. This
rain, however, makes q run Of only
b miles. The Northern France Road
a. eight trains daily whose speed az
reds afty-eight miles per hour and
no trains whose speed exceeds sixty
lilies per hour. These trains do not (
m great distances. IL
For short time Q London Plymouth
,ain maintained q schedule Of eS.Sls
lilies per hour. The distance Il 2f8 ,
'ilss. The entire run was made In
y minutsA ID