Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

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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
go to New York and spend an entire
day there and lose only that day from
Ills business in Chicago. He is able
to go to New York and spend almost
as much time as he could at Michi-
gan summer home and get back as
quickly.
With regular train covering nearly
a thousand miles at an average speed
OF more than fifty-four miles an hour,
the American railroad sets pace for
all the roads of the world. There are
no fast European trains which run so
great 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
VIII run much faster than that.
The New York Central and Lake
shore lines have now reduced the rum
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
eO5 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
rpute 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
speed of more than eighty miles an
hour to cover the $50 miles in 1850
minutes. Recently on its regular run
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-tiye minutes
Railroad men say that the schedule
may be cut to seventeen and then to
sixteen hours.
Heretofore no railroad hns attempt.
ed to maintain a schedule of less than
twenty hours between Chicago AMI
New York. During the Worlds Fair
in 1903 the New York Central "Exposl.
ton Flyer" ran for los days, on a
t'wsenty-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-m!le train.
The only train In the world which
runs at faster speed than the two
Chicago trains run is the London Car.
Isle express. This Is train which
makes Its 30O-mile Journey without
single stop. 1t has the right of way
over all other traffic, and is forced TO
run the 800 miles in Just four hours,
or at the rate Of seventy-tiv miles an
hour. The London-Aberdeen train.
which Is considered more marvellous
speedmaker III that 1t travels farther
than the Carlisle train, maintains Its
schedule of one mile 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 train from London to
Exeter at the rate of 500 miles an
hour, while the London and North
Westerns Manchester train maintains
schedule Of tifty-three miles per
hour. The Greut Northerns London.
Dorchester train is fifty ive-mie an
hour train, while the London Crewe
train runs fifty-four miles an hour,
There Is an express train which runs
between London and Wakefield that
travels at the rate of 555 miles per
hour, while London Sheffield train is
scheduled Mt tifty-fiye miles per hour.
Paris has several world-famous
trains, but none that equals the sched-
ule of the two new Chicago New York
flyers. On the Nord Railroad. between
Paris and Calais. there Is one train
scheduled at 5S.4 miles per hour. This
train. however, maker, n run of only
1856 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 short time acknowledgements
train maintained schedule OF 633
miles per hour. The distance is 2lU
miles. The entire run was made In
233 minutes.
The Twentieth Century limited made
wonderful run in May, 1903, when
1t ran AZ miles at the rate of So miles
per hour, six miles at the rate of 90
miles per hour, and seven miles at the
rate of 1874 miles per hour. On this
run this train maintained speed OF
G8.12 miles per hour for 241 miles and
70.2 miles per hour for 1873 miles.
The new eighteen-hour trains carry
Ave or six heavy palace cars. The
largest passenger engines In the SER
vice pull the trains. which have the
right Of way Of the roads long before
they are scheduled TO pass any given
point.
The trains are pnt on us the result