The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-19
CENTRAL Fills BEAT TIME
TWENTIETH CENjRY LIMITEDS
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!, nTTFAlo N. r., June 1.-The Twentieth
a =, 10y Limited from tn East arrived
| ,'eca street exactly on,obedule time,
! tri, Knight on her first Rhteen hour
snp 'oohicago. Three miutes sufioed
u 81 o"nge OF locomotives nd the Lake
o"o,e 20" charge of the fiier or the rest
, VIC uip'o Chicago. The trsn left Buff
aao promptly at 1883 and the slipping pas
9'n is marcy knew they had sopped.
Ane i%ehtsth Century from Chicago
eastoound was handed over to tie New
iuiA .ehtrai minutes ahead of its
soieoule' Inc rain was brouph, here
from cleveland 1t speed approuma-
'hs w miles an hour. Three Minutes
were taken In the change of engines and
'ne new YORK Central engineer had a
c'nch' Tor the Western division is easy.
me trains were handed without specisl
eHort. The time Of No 20. the eastbound
was not within three hotrs a. fast "A tbs
inspection train, which easily broke all
records last week
lhe New York Central is simsly applyina
.he time OF the Empire State EYlress when
~ taxes the Limited from the Lake Store and
the run to New York from here vii, ba
made on practically the same schedule that
the Empire has had for fourteen yeare
The train from the West was made up of
four new Pullmans. The New York train
hau the same number plus diner.
When the trains pa ssed through the en-
glneers reported both locomotives running
M
schedule. ITS cinch" said the des-
patcher at the Lake Shore office. I'VE were
twenty minutes ahead at Cleveland and
mere we hand her over to those New York
central fellows nearly half an hour to the
c1.-
Century Limo. June ls.-The Twentieth
sc''eu'iie between 'nlte'>s'" eighteen-iu~-
arrived in this city tonight ~ IilInu,es
ahead of time.
The train had experienced no difficulty
whatever in making the time and it was
estimated 10y the officials on board that
it could have made New York from one
and half to two hours ahead Of schedule
if desired.
At Fin gewood the train was two minutes
ahead, at Elkhart it was fifteen minutes
ahead and stop of twenty minutes was
made here. From Elkhart to Toledo.
1874 miles, the run was made in l2l minutes
establishing record SO smoothly did
the train run that for five minutes over a
straight piece of track water was not spilled
from filed glass standing in the center
of the car.
At Elkhart it was found necessary to
take of the observation car because of
the stones and pebbles which we're hurled
at the rear windows by the speed Of the
train. Between Toledo and this city
another record was est ablished This di-
vision is the slowest on the road, yet the
l0s miles we're covered in los minutes.
CHICAGO, June ls.The eastbound Tween
tieth Century Limited steamed out of the
Lasnlle street station exactly at 2:3O O. clock
this afternoon.
Interest was added to the first trip by
the presence of Mr. and Mrs. James Hor-
lick Of Honolulu among the passengers.
IL the train arrives in New York at the
time scheduled, $50 o'clock tomorrow
morning the couple will have crossed the
continent from San Francisco to New York
in eighty-four hours and fifteen minutes.
the fastest time on record. Mr.. and Mrs.
Horlick arrived in Chicago on the Over
land Limited at 8 o'clock this morning.
The trip from Honolulu to San Francisco
by steamer took ten days.
The first trip of the New York Central's
Twentieth Century Limited on an eighteen
hour schedule between New York and Chi
cago was begun yesterday. The TWEEN
tieth Century was the only twenty hour
train between the big cities until the Penn
sylvania recently put on I'm eighteen hour
train.
The two Centuries west bound and east
bound left New York and Chicago at the
same time, $3.50 P. NJ Formerly the west
bound left here at 2A5 p. NJ, and the east
bound train left Chicago at 1890 p. NJ.
over the Lake Shore. When the Century
pulled out of the Grand Central Station four
Central officials were aboard her to see
how she'd go. They we're Charles +.
Smith, assistant general superintendent;
NJ &, Roach, assistant passenger agent:
ID. b. Mccoy, superintendent OF the Hudson
Division and +. T. Slack. trainmaster of
the division.
The train reached Albany on schedule
time, $40 P. NJ, making the run of l43
miles in 100 minutes, fourteen minutes less
than the old schedule The Century stops
at Albany. Utica, Syracuse and Rochester,
but skips Buffalo, as it would lose time
hacking into the city to make stop. Here
is the schedule in miles and minutes:
Running
MHes Time
New York to Alhany...,..........l I3 100 minutes
Albany to ~ ractlsc. ..........,,lis ITO minutes
Syracuse to Buffalo .............,lW 1865 minutes
Buffalo to Ccveand" .lvminu,es
ClrNt!an! 10 !O"I0,,..,....,.,...lD 100 mlnuies |
Toledo II tI.G.l.....,,..........l35 l35 minutes
Ei.hG!i iut l.c- l25 minutes
Total 985 $50 minutes
Boil Centuries are eolppel with a |