Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
BEATS ALL RECORDS.
TWENTIETH CENTURY LlMirEp
GOES LIKE THE WIND.
New York Central-Lake Shore Flyer
Makes IS-Hour Run Between New
York and Chicago with Time to Barn
Net Schedule Is 10 Hours.

Annihilating all records fog dime 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 fifty-iv minutes
after leaving New York.
The Million Dollar Train covered
the 966 miles between seaboafd and
great lakes in an actual running time
of seventeen hours and nine minutes
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 its thousand mile
run, the Chicago flyer covered six
miles between Osceola and Mishawaka
in less than five minutes and covered
the 101 miles between Elkhart and Chi
cago, including stops at Grand Cross
ing and South Chicago, in little less
than two hours.
The roadbeds of the Lake Shore and
New York Central lines are so nearly
perfect and the interlocking semaphore
and track guarding systems so delicate
ly adjusted that Assistant General Pas
senger Agent Frank ]. 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. H. Marshall, general manager Both
trains arriving in Chicago and New
York were under strict orders to slow
down to schedule time. Were it hot
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. a distance
of 80 miles, was covered in $50 min
utes fiat. Between Elkhart and To-
ledo, 1884 miles, the actual running
time was 1211a minutes. Toledo to
Cleveland, 1918 miles We're run in 1O5
minutes.
The engines used between Chicago
and Buffalo were of the Prairie type
and avera e ninety-fve TONS From
Buffalo to New York the Atlantic type
was used, which averaged 40 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 at division points ahead
of time and were held back to schedule
on departure. Spurts of speed at the
rate of 100 miles an hour We're made,
unconscious of this sensational eating
up of space had they not looked out of
the windows of the cars at the blur Of
landscape.