Show QUICKEST RAILROAD RUNS OF THE PAST nearly nineteen years yeara ago or to be exact in june 1876 a pennsylvania railroad standard locomotive drawing a train of two wo sleeping oars care and a din ing our oar covered the distance between jersey city and pittsburg four hund ed and thirty eight and live five tenths without a stop atop in six hundred and five minutes or ao an average rate of of forty three and one half miles an hour this journey is note as aa tue longest known continuous run and one which involved thorough tran arrangements for its movement a d great endurance on the part of toe the locomotive the special train was en route to san ban francisco which city was reached in eighty four hours slid and seventeen minutes after leaving new york the train which conveyed president Preg ident gatfield from washington to elberon dep september jtb 1881 was wag run under conditions of great excitement and acid I 1 anxiety his life hung bung upon ath a abre roid d and any detention of che train would have resulted d disastrously the ex cit ement was intense and prostration was imminent the physicians bad fixed upon thirty miles an hour as the speed which would give the least die comfort to the patio patient 3 after the train was well under way and without warning an increase of speed was determined ter mined upon which reached sixty five miles an hour haur before the journey was completed this order tor for the of tais train was contained in one message and so skillfully fully was it worded that despite the changed conditions there was not the detention from any cause melville pailles in the liew science review renew for april |