Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-10-13 | Page 4 | Speed on Railways.

SPEED ON RAILWAYS Popping railroad ties tics at the rate of oC c or seventy miles an hour is going at a pretty rapid pace when you co come com to think of or It said sald an old railroad railroad rail rail- road ron man in the New ew Orleans Times Times- Democrat and men who ho s speak cak Indifferently f of such records record simply do not think about what it means Go tl the cab with the engineer and fireman If It you PU want to get the real meaning of this sort of or thing It Is a dangerous gait Men Ien who arc are lolling in a a. comfortable comfortable comfortable comfor comfor- table coach conch on cushioned chairs probable able lc poring over some come book that Is so 50 dull that It quiets the nerves do not know anYthIng about the desperate leaps and hoota and of or the engine as It darts alon along the track Let Letus Letus us ug see ee Just ho how fast rast this Is and for the sake ake of or convenience we will take the slower of ot sixty miles an hour In order to avoid the use ue of oC fractions In Inan Inan Inan an English mile the kind used In the United Untied States there are arc feet reet or 1 1760 yards allowing three feet crt for or a Sixty mlle miles an hour means a amile mile a Il minute or feet In sixty seconds sec see sixtieth One of or Is SS S So that thata a n. train traveling at the rate r O of 0 sixty miles an hour tr travels SS S-S fe feet t Cf C every second second sec see ond ond of time that it is at this rate raie of oC speed Put in a n different wa way the train Is covering co twenty twenty- twentY lne yards yarIs and one foot In a second of or time A As s second sc-cond Is not a very ery long of time tIie It is no uc more than t the tick of or a clock though there arc are clocks clock and watches which tick at a more rapid rate g ef speed Covering Co 53 feet a 1 second Is is rather rathor rapidly There are but bUl few rew things In the air awa away from Crom the fri friction tion Incident to contact with tied rails and uPgrades upgrade that mo e move move-as a rapidly Come to think of or It It a man wouldn't be ro co VCr very Ion long iong in going around th the world orld at the rate of oC a mile milea a a. a. a minute And yet et men talk glibly sixty live enough about trains train moving and and seventy event miles an hour