Show t r SPEEDY NEW TRAINS 4 sort of preamble to the answer of the railroads to the air air- airplane's planes plane's challenge IS seen m in two new lIght fast streamlined trains recently bUIlt and tested one for the Burlington and one for the Union Pac Pacific Both of these are three car constructed of a new alloy having the strength of steel but weighing only third one as much an entIre tram train being only about the weight of a standard Pullman A maXImum speed of mIles an hour against a 32 mile head headwind headwind wind has been attained at a fuel cost of about one one-f one fifth th of that of a three car steam trailL Officials expect to soon establish a regular schedule requiring only two nights and one day between Chicago and the PacifIc coast or a reduction of the present time by about 40 per cent Thus a business man making the trip would lose only one da day en I Iro route ro t the same as he would lose in traveling by airplane r AddItional new six car and nine car trains of the same type t i ar are now being built and will be put into service before the end of th the year It is probable that other railroads will adopt similar speed high trains with the result that in a few years the present type of passenger train may be entirely obsolete 1 n A |