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Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Watson-Stillman Co 34 Walters. J. H 294 Westinghouse Alr-Brabe Co 29 Whittlesey. Geo. P 293 Williams Tool Co ; 293 Williams Typewriter Co 13 Wood, R. D., & Co 2 Zeller, Geo. A 8 R&l^i^^EiKiiieeriiK Copyright by Angui Sinclair Co.—1905 A Practical Journal of Railway Motive Power and Rolling: Stock Vol. XVIII. 136 Liberty Street. New York. July, 1905 No. 7 Fastest Trains in the World. thiced to nineteen hours. This appears twecn starting and terminal points of BY ANGUS SINCLAIR. to have Stirred the Pennsylvania people, S0.3 miles an hour exclusive of stops. The indications are that we will see for they gave notice of a limited that The distance by the New York Central some very fast train running in this would be run between New York and and the Lake STiore is 959 miles, making country within the next few months. The Chicago in eighteen hours, and now the the average running speed S3.3 miles Vanderbilt Systems have liccn running Vanderbilt lines have determined that per hour.
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PENNSYLVANIA EXPRESS TRAIN, WITH EXTF.\ CAR, RUNNING SIXTV-FIVE MII.ES AN HOUR.(Type of locomotive ttiat pulls IS-hoiir New Vork-Chicago trains.) a very popular train between New York their Twentieth Century Limited will The problems of pushing through and Chicago, called the Twentieth Cen- make the run in eighteen hours. The dis- these trains punctually every day on the tury Limited. which made the run in tance from New York to Chicago by the limited time scheduled constitute the twenty hours, and recently intimation Pennsylvania Railroad is 905 miles, most strenuous work that railroad men was given that the time would be re- which will require an average speed be- have ever undertaken; and their sue- 29S KAILWAV AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING July. 1905. cessful consummation will add newlaurels to American railroad manage-ment. The speed is not so excessive,for the Empire State Express has longbeen run on that average schedule, andfor a long stretch maintains a speedover 60 miles an hou

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