The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-16

'The greatest trouble the railroads Ia
this country have to contend tn " the
t,rsassers. the persons who walk on rail-
road tracks. A good percentage Of persons,
killed by tho trains of this country are
sEnsiand, France and Germany arc free
from This troub o. In those countries 1t 70
Persons who do It and have no right TO
trespass are punished In this freeborn land
Of ours there would be an awful howl II
the railroads got together and tried to free
themselves OF trespassers.
"A man walking along railroad track
might become suddenly insane, or he may
The result rs a wreck.
@No one knows what tho railroads suffer
from trespsseers. The Interstate Commerce
passep were killed BY rallroadsin this coun-'
try alone last year.
This railroad man voiced the sentiments
OF majority Of railroad men. As to the
limit Of speed few will contradict him,
speed ira irs although il may be taken away
from Il II the syndi, ate that was recently
formed In Brussels makes good It's boast
This syndicate was formed to constrict
q straight line railroad from Brussels TO
Berlin, the motive power 70 be ele, tri ny;
seven hours and to do It will require speed
in excess OF ninety miles an hour To do
this tho railroad will have to be built az
nearly in a straight line as possible and high
power electric engines will be Used.
OF experimenting with electric engines
and for short distances they have attained
great speed. What the railroad men of this
country want Is gh power engines that can
make fast time on long hauls. that is on trips
Of 800 or moro miles.
4Talking about speed limit and safety
said General Manager A. u. Smith Of the
New York Central, "look at the Empire
State Express. It's been running since
Oct. 20. 1891. and has never had fatality:
Century Limited Of the New York Central
(the latter the eighteen hour trainl are the
two fastest trains in the world. The next
fastest train Is the Pennsylvania eighteen
hour train to Chicago.
On certain stretches OF road any one OK
these three trains could be speeded at the
rate OF seventy miles an hour. Railroad
men say they make this speed when they are
few minutes behind time
The Empir' State Express runs the 40
miles from New York to Buffalo In hours
Guiding stops, is s.. 80 miles an hour. The
total weight OF that train Is 405 tons.
The Central's eighteen hour train runs
from New York to Chicago. distance ~
985 miles, In IS hours at an average speed
Of 81. 81 mi lies an hour.
The Pennsylvania eighteen hour train
has to travel COS miles In 10 hours at an aver.
age speed of 0.2s miles an hour.
The fastest foreign trains are:
The Sud Express, which travels between
Paris and Bordeaux, distance cf 4ss.ol
age speed Of this train Is 40. 80 an hour. This
train went at the rate of54 miles an hour
until It ran down an ENHANCEMENT. Then
it, Turning time was extended.
The East Coast Express OF the Great
from London to Edinburgh, a distance OF
$685. miles in hours and As minutes, at an
average speed Of SOFT miles an hour. An.
other fast English train runs between Lon
don and Glasgow, distance Of 4o1I miles,
In 8 hours, at an average speed OF oo'lS
miles an hour
These are the six fastest long distance
trains In tho world. What strikes the lay
man In comparing the foreign and the
American trains is the great difference IN
weight OF cars and engines our rolling
reason far superior, railroad men say.
People often ride on fast trains and don't
realize It. Many a person rides on the
Albany Filler between Albany and New YORK
without knowing that he Is really going
faster than il he were riding on the Empire
state Express. The last named train runs
with four cars, and it's running time between
Albany and New York is hours and 50
minutes. 1t does not stop between these
cities. "
The Albany Fiier is six car train and the
running time between Albany and New York
Il 8 hours and II minutes. 1t makes eight
stops on tho way, Each stop. slowing
down. disohar ging passengers and getting
started again, will take at least three min
utes.
Take twenty -four minutes out Of the run
ming time and folks who ride on the Albany
Fier are travelling pretty fast: STU they
don't realize 1t and the New York Central
never boasts about this train.
Which ali goes to show that people Who
travel on railroads have no idea how fast
they are going. The men who run the rail-
roads do, though, and they are constantly on
tho alert. II one road puts on a fast train an
other fast train will be put on In composition:
Tho mile minute period is here. People Of
tho next generation are likely to travel at
the rate OF 100 miles an hour. Such speed
has often been prophesied and the electric
engine may make the prophecy fact.