The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-08-11

Fast trains virtually draw Chicago
and New York 100 miles closer to-
gether than they have ever been be-
fore. A Chicago man is now able to
60 to New York and spend an entire
day there and lose only that day from
his business in Chicago. He is able
to go to New York and spend almost
as much time as he could at q Michi-
gan summer home and get back as
quickly.
With a regular train covering nearly
a thousand miles at an average speed
OF more than fifty-four miles an hour.
the American railroad sets a pace for
all the roads of the world. There are
no fast European trains which run so
great a 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
will 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, 1t is
COS 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 its
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 1850
from the East to Chicago the Twenti-
eth Century limited ran from Toledo,
Ohio, to Elkhart, Ind, 100 miles, in
100 minutes From Elkhart to Chicago
the train covered the 1O1 miles, max
ing five full stops, in 95 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 1893 the New York Central 'Exposi-
ton Flyer" ran for 1O8 days on a
twenty hour 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 a 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
single stop. 1t has the right Of way
over all other traffic, and is forced to
run the 300 miles in just four hours,
or at the rate of seventy-f1ve miles an
hour. The London-Aberdeen train,
which is considered a more marvellous
speedmaker in that 1t travels farther
than the Carlisle train, maintains it's
schedule Of one mile q minute for 523
miles. England Is famous for its fast
trains, but the trains that run out Of
London do not travel such great dis
tances as do the American trains. The
London-Aberdeen run Is the longest
possible in Great Britain.
The Great Western Railroad OF Eng
land runs a train from London to
Exeter at the rate Of 55.3 miles an
hour. while the London and North
westerns Manchester train maintains
schedule Of fiftythree miles per
hour. The Great Northern's London
Dorchester train is a fifty-tive-mile an
hour train, while the London rewe
train runs fifty-four miles an hour.
There Is an express train which runs
between London and Wakefield that
, travels at the rate Of 55.5 miles per
hour. while London Sheffield train Is
scheduled at fifty-five miles per hour.
Paris has several world-famous
trains. but none that equals the sched-
nile of the two new ChicagoNew York
flyers. On the Nord Railroad. between
Paris and Calais, there is one train
scheduled at 5S.4 miles per hour. This
train, however. makes run of only
1S5 miles. The Northern France Road
has eight trains daily whose speed ex-
ceeds fifty-eight miles per hour and
two trains whose speed exceeds sixty
miles per hour. These trains do not
run great distances.
For a short time London-Plymouth
train maintained schedule OF C3.3
miles per hour The distance is PIG
miles The entire run vas made III
233 minutes.