AMERICAN RAILWAY RECORD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12909, 4 July 1905, Page 7

AMERICAN RAILWAY RECORD.

' ' ' Chicago, June .5. THE Pennsylvania railroad broke all records between New York and Chicago to-day by making ; a run of 897 miles in 17 hours flat This feat was accomplished by two special trains, one running from New York to Pittsburg in eight hours and 50 minutes, and the other making the trip from Pittsburg to Chicago in eight hours and. 10 minutes. ho runs were trials of speed to demonstrate the ability of the Pennsylvania to nut an 18hour train into service, and make the schedule with case under ordinary circumstances, fit several ways the Chicago end of the run was remarkable.' All the way from Pittsburg the special train, bearing 1 railroad officials and employees, encountered severe head winds, which- greatly retarded 1 the speed, but, despite this handicap, the 463 miles were made at an average rate of 57.7 miles an hour. The New York-Pittsburg end of the run, necessitating mountain crossin", was made at the average rate of 18 miles an hour. The combined runs were made at an. average rate of 52.8 miles per hour, which is the fastest ever made between the two cities. The train was made up of exactly the equipment which the Pennsylvania special will carry, an engine and six oar.?. The run from Warsaw, Ind., to Chicago, 108 miles, was made in 118 minutes. Out of Orestlino, for a distance of more than 100 miles, the speed l was better than one mile a minute, and the maximum speed recorded by the indicator in one of the oars was 92 miles an hour, maintained for almost three miles. ;