New Britain herald., 1926-04-01
RAILROADS NOW AIM TO ATTAIN
 SPEED OF 100 MILES AN HOUR

with a desire to be included in the ! program and also are ambitious 10 provide perfect comfort and safety 10 their patrons and employees,
 Although the program will cost countless millions ot dollars, 1t is the ultimate purpose of some man. agers to put roller bearings under all equipment and to operate heavier, longer rails, sot in q solid cement roadbed IS inches thick and 10 feet wide for each track. Under these conditions it is calculated that trains will be capable of main. taining speed of 100 miles an hour with an increased degree Of safety and far greater comfort to the riders.
 Three Hours to New York
 By the proposal the speed of the travelling public and of even all freight will he doubled. providing train service between New York and Chicago in l2 hours. Philadel. 1 phia and New York in one hour, 1 and between San Francisco and Washington in 43 or 50 hours The tourney between Boston and New York might be cut down to ap- proXimately three hours.
 This subject of ironing out the bumps" in steam railway transpor- tation has been under serious con- s!deration for two years, in the hope of keeping steam railroad transportation apace with ncroas- ling production oi all other lines of
 pdustry.
 Already the Pere Marquette rail.
 road is pouring cement or concrete
 into a test section of permanent
 roadbed on its lines in Michigan
 Before the roadhed is finished ant
 ready for service, experts for roll
 er-hearng manufacturers will have
 completed the installation of roller bearings on a test passenger trair
 and locomotive. Frank Hooker Al
 fred, president and, general man
 ager Of the road. is the outstand
 ing American steam railroad mal who is supporting this plan for th improvement Of transportation ia
 cilities. He predicts regular sched
 uies of 100 miles an hour for linn tied trains with such equipment He has been testing out the roller bearings on a locomotive and tcnde Tor two years and Is enthusiast - over the results obtained.
 Importance Of Speeding Up Pres. Alfred said, in an intervicy [ in the Philadelphia Public Ledger =. II expect 10 see all railroad roll 9 ing stock in this country running 0 ] roller bearings, With the preser n rapid expansion of industry we sha
 be compelled 10 do everything DO: 2 sible to reduce friction to q min T mum, in order 10 increase capacit ;, of the roads.
 t That is also the chief reason vh s we must come to the permanel
 roadbed. l. Is important for II
 railroads to speed Up their schet a ules in order to put z down Il amount Of time which business ms 4 must spend in travelling.
 1 But the big thing in railrot ;- transportation is freight Rough i. if you can double the average spe' .i at which freight moves in this cou :. try, you can reduce by one-half ( s amount of business and industrial i '- ventories--the amount of goods ca ried in stock.
 Tn the matter of passenger tra !s speeds, the chief limiting factor {
 day is the roadbed and that h O. been true for many years. Locom IS lives are now and have been built { ne q quarter of century capable IT, making l00 miles an hour or bett to Average Speed of so Miles th "The New York Central has rf n- ord from Detroit 10 Buffalo. whi IS. shows an average speed of about d. miles an hour for the entire II ed l. was made with q special tra