Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1905-06-15
TRAIN IN RECORD RUN.
Flyer Covers the 46s Miiss From Chi
eaae to Pittsbura In 40
Minutes.

the ChicasoRecord-Heraldl
PITTSBURG.-The time when ca
cagoans may leave home in the fore
noon and keep dinner engagements il
New York on the evening of the sam
day no longer depends on the perfec
ton OF air ships. Fourteen hours be
tween the big cities OF the East an,
West is an easy schedule, as showI
by trial run of tine ''Pennsylvani.
Special the new eighteen-hour traii
that is To be established by the Penn
sylvania lines next Sunday.
The 46s miles between Chicago ant
Pittsburg was covered today in Az
minutes. including stops, and despite
two hot boxes. Had the run beer
continued to New York, 905 miles
from Chicago and 437 miles east OF
Pittsburg. there would have been
time TO spare from the prearranged
schedule of fifteen hours.
The train left Chicago at 7:25 o.
clock this morning. pulled into the
Union station here at 2:45. and could
easily have reached New York at
S;i5 this evening. eastern time.
Space was annihilated between Chi.
cago and Pittsburg with so mucn COM
fort 10 the railroad officials and 9TH
ers aboard the train that the trip
was almost uneventful For time
stop watches were held on the mile
posts and when these attachments TO
the landscape get to flying post too
suddenly TO keep up computations tne
passengers fell back on the speed
ometers in the cars, which showed
that for distance OF nearly two
miles top rate OF 40 miles per hour
was maintained
An average rate was 63.53 miles
per hour, including stops, and. de-
Quoting the dead time, aggregatiug
twenty-elght minutes, the average
running speed was 6s1 miles per
hour.
The special was made up of locomo.
tive and five COACHES, virtually a
counterpart in size and weight of the
regular train about to be run. On
board were General Manager G. l..
Peck. General Superintendent A. NJ
Scnoyer and other officials, and l.. F.
Loree, formerly president of the Bal
timore 4 Ohio and Rock Island sys-
tems.
Owing to the necessity of low
speed out OF the Chicago Union sta
lion to Englewood, the first hours
run was comparatively slow. yet six
ty-two miles were clicked on In the
second hour seventy-three miles were
covered, in the third seyenty.one
miles including the stop at Fort
WAYNE TO change engines. and in the
fourth hour sixty eight miles, includ.
ing stops
Sixty-two miles were run the fifth
hour. In the sixtn hour the speed
was ffty-one miles, but during that
--.is tra:c was standing still
thirteen minutes In the seventh
hour sixty.two miles were reeled on.
Notwithstanding stop was made.
From Clark Junction TO Fort
Wayne, distance of 1876 miles. the
speed per hour averaged rs $40
"A'eof lhSihuillS otopss MIC ulCci
mile was made in forty-two to forty
four seconds. Regardless of the nigh
rate at which the train was running.
the passengers aboard enjoyed smooth
riding
No effort was made 10 get the nigh
est speed possible out of the train,
and in fact no special preparation for
the run had been undertaken. the
schedule having been made up by the
dispatchers az late as last night. The
Pennsylvania officials wanted the
trip made under ordinary conditions
as nearly as possible. and this was
Just what was done.
The Twentieth Century Limited
made a phenomenal run yesterday
from Elkhart to Chicago. The dis
lance of lOl miles was run in ninety
five minutes, including full stops at
South Chicago, Grand Crossing, En-
glewood. target stop this side of
Englewood and a crossing stop al
Sixteenth street On the same trip
the Century ran 1873 miles from To
ledo to Elkhart in 1873 minutes. This
time was made in order to reach the
Chicago terminal on time. C. F. DAILY.
passenger traffic manager of the New
York Central lines west Of Buffalo.
said that the time was not made WITH
view to testing speed limits, as the
Century had frequently done better.
We do not have to make any test
runs" he said 80 see if we can make
eighteen hours between Chicago and
New York. We know We can do II.
Less than one year ago the Century
was stopped by a landslide at Pough'
lteepsie. and when released she came
to Chicago on schedule which, ad-
ded to the time from New York to
Poughkeepsie, meant a run OF fifteen
hours and fifty minutes between New
York and Chicago"
CHICAGO, June 1.-THE west
bound Pennsylvania Special, the new
eighteen-hour train winich LETT New
York for this city at 3:55 D. m. Sun
day. arrived in Chicago at $3.50 this
morning. three minutes ahead OF
time. The train was delayed fifteen
minutes at Mansfield, o., by hot