Show almost one hundred ardnea touca an aa nour what is believed to be the fastest time on record was made ado by a compound locomotive of the tha vauclain Vau clato type on the bound brook route rente between philadelphia and new york ou on friday evening I 1 nov 18 the tha locomotive no was attached to the regular p ra express from philadelphia which consisted of four cars A number of very rapid runs ID of f several miles were made between Jenk jenkintown and laidley five successive mues miles were ran in seconds or at the rate os of eighty eight miles per hour and near neshaminy aminy a mile atis was made in thirty nine seconds the record was broken brol ren however between plainfield and elizabeth on tho the lin line beof of the central railroad Bail road of new ner jersey where one mile was run in thirty seven seconds and two successive sivo miles in leventy five seconds or at the rate of ninety seven miles per hour the tha engine which made madd this extraordinary record weighs pounds without tender and carried pounds of it on the drivers the latter leing being seven seventy ty eight inches in diameter dia eter engineering record |