Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-06-13 | Page 11 | Both Flyers Make Better than Schedule

Both Flyers Make Belter Than Schedule Pennsylvania Railroad OfTicinls Already Al-ready Talk of Reducing the Time to Sixteen Hours NEW YORK. Jnnp 12 The first cast-hound cast-hound train of tho PertQfylvania'a new eishtpen-hour Bervlce between New YorV and Chicago arrived in Jersey City at 9.22 a. m. today, three mlnites ahead of pi heduie time The running time of the train from Chicago Chi-cago to Jersey City wa. seventeen hours nnl thlrty-seen minutes The engineer Of the train said on arrival that a short distance cast of Hohart. Ind., the train covered a mile in thirty-Aye seconds. CHICAGO. June 1? On Its initial run from New "i r.rk. the Pennsylvania railroads rail-roads elfjhteen-hour ' flyer. ' the fastest long distance train In the world, arrived In this city at R t2 o'clock this morning tl pee minutes ahead of schedule time in order to accomplish this feat, extraordinary extraordi-nary achievements In tho way of fast running were- neeossarv After leaving Pittsburg the tender Of the big Mlnntlo type engine which had been attached at that city for the nin to Crestline. O . developed de-veloped a hot box about twenty miles east of Mansfield, O Tho engineer stepped his train and fifteen fif-teen minutes wore lost In futile efforts to cool the troublesome axle. Finally, a freight ertglne was attached and the trnln limped lnt Crestline. Hero the regular engine was In waiting and when the "flyer 1 left the latter place It was twenty twen-ty minutes late Tho run to Fort Wayne LSI miles away, was mode In 1H4 mlnute6. an average of sixty-eight and six-tenth miles an hour V.'hcn the train pulled out of Fort Wane for the first lap of the long Journey Jour-ney It wa onlj nine and a half minutes late sixteen and a half minutes of the lost tlmo having been made up. Miles were, frequently reeled off In from forty-four forty-four to fifty seconds and an average rd of a mile n minute was easllv maintained main-tained over long stretches of track. President 1 nderwood of the Erie rail-road, rail-road, was a passenger Already the Pennsylvania railroad officials are discussing dis-cussing the possibility of reducing the running time between Chicago and New-York New-York to sixteen hours.