Show baet it has been claimed that the celebrated empire worlds fair express made miles an hour but the statement fails entirely of authentication the figure of 1027 miles per hour for short distances appears to be nearer the mark and oven if there were an error of a second the rate would still have been miles an hour between jersey city and philadelphia it is a common occurrence for the engines hauling the blue line trains to reach DO miles an hour speeds of over 84 miles an hour arc often made by the philadelphia reading and central new jersey flyers in england a great northern train lias maja S 11 an hour while a midland train between london and scotland lias run up to the same speed the london northwestern has gone up to the continent of europe does not appear to afford any examples at all approximating the american and english records a fact attributable to the conservative dislike of the government officials to high speed rather than to actual inability |