Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25


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
his business in Chicago He Is able
to go to New York and spend almost
as much time as he could at a Michi-
gan summer home and get back as
quickly.
With a regular train covering nearly
thousand miles at an average speed
OF more than ffty-fOur miles an hour
the American railroad sets a pace fol-
oil the roads of the world. There are
no fast European trains which run SO
great distance. Even the world IA
nous Standardization 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, it is
905 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. It's average
running time is 544 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
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 101 miles, max
Ing five full stops, in % minutes. Last
year this same train made the run
from New York to Chicago, $50 miles,
in fifteen hours and forty-fve minutes.
Railroad men say that the schedule
may be cut to seventeen and then to
sixteen hours.
Hereto fore no railroad has attempt.
ed to maintain a schedule of less than
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New York. During the Worlds Fair
in 1893 the New York Central "Exposi-
ton Flyer" ran for los 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 q faster speed than the two
Chicago trains run is the London Car
isle express. This is a train which
makes its 300-mile journey without 4
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-five miles an
hour. The London-Aberdeen train,
which is considered a more marvellous
speedmaker in that it travels farther
than the Carlisle train, maintains its
schedule of one mile d 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
a schedule of fifty-three miles per
hour. The Great Northerns London
Dorchester train is a fifty 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 thai
travels at the rate of 55.5 miles pei
hour, while a London Sheffield train is
scheduled at ffty-ive miles per hour
Paris has several world-famous
trains, but none that equals the SEIZED
ule of the two new Chicago-New Yori
flyers On the Nord Railroad. between
Paris and Calais, there is one train
scheduled at 5S.4 miles per hour. Thi;
train, however, makes Il run of only
1855 miles. The Northern France ROa(
has eight trains daily whose speed ex
ceeds fifty-eight miles per hour anC
two trains whose speed exceeds sixty
miles per hour These trains do no
run great distances.
For short time a LOndon-PlymOutl
train maintained a schedule of g.
miles per hour. The distance is 2H
miles. The entire run was made il
23S minutes.
The Twentieth Century limited mad
wonderful run in May. 1908, whel
1t ran "A miles at the rate Of IS mile
per hour, six miles at the rate of 9
miles per hour. and seven miles at tn
rate of S6.4 miles per hour. On thi
run this train maintained speed o
G6.12 miles per hour for PAL miles an
70.2 miles per hour for 1873 miles.
The new eighteen-hour trains carr
FIVE or six heavy palace cars. Tn
largest passenger engines in the SCI
vice pull the trains. which have tn
right of way of the roads long befor
they are scheduled to pass any give
point.
The trains are put on as the resul
of a general demand for fast travt
between the two cities. Such train
are used for the most part by finaT
ciers who have business interests bot
in New York and Chicago by buyer
for the big firms of Chicago, and b
professional men TO whom every hou
ia valuable There are other passeI
gers than these, of course, most {
whom use the fast trains and pay th
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