Show I 1 making sport of ou I 1 now york mail and E you Y do it no what fast tr ve bans in this country in who had a trip throughout the new england states slid the west was our railroad system with a friend at a cafe dodt eh what do y on say about our limited ayress to chicago ilow fast do you claich run forty miles an houf now leaten and ill give you some news in england third class passengers ride from forty to forty five miles an hour and nobody pays extra fare on account of the speed from new Y ark to albany it a miles by a asplen d id track there are tell ex press trains daily bettien these cities and their average speed is twenty oine miles an hour between london and sheffield miles the great northern runs nine trains daily with a I 1 n average i edof forty five miles I 1 an hour ode train makos fifty miles an hour between now york and boston the average i speed is thirty ailed an hour and the fastest fas a train composed exclusively of sleeping cars makes thirty nine miles an hour between Lon donand man cheater miles twenty trains da t ily with an average speed C of jorty miles an hour and ome trains making fifty between london and glascow there are thirteen daily expressed d their average speed is almost forty miles an hour one train being much faster than this yeo but that is only on favored lines 0 not at all all over england and scotland excess trains com posed of first second and abird class carriages m ake from ebirt ff lve 0 0 fifty miles an hour abi f in A merica a thirty five mile train is called a stroke of lightning the instead regular train in america so I 1 am told is one ore the balti ore and ohio which makes the forty miles between washington and balti diore in fifty minutes there are three or four fast trains between new york and ph i ladel bour hia covering forty six mil es an between liverpool and manchester there tire fifty two trains daily none of them slower than forty five wiles an hour and four of them making fifty one and a third miles an hour |