Identifier: railwaylocomotiv20newy (find matches)
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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O. i Wood, R. D., & Co 5 Zeller. Geo. A 3 RfSi^i^EiRiiieefins Copyright by Angus Sinclair Co.—1907 A Practical Journal of Railway Motive Power and Rolling Stock Vol. XX. 136 Liberty Street, New York, October, 1907 No. ro The Pennsylvania Special. When one says tliat the famous son river from Twenty-third street in of the performance of the iron horse.New York, ami getting ready to start. This taking out of the hour at Pitts- Pennsylvania Special, No. 29, goes Is bit of water trip is not, strictly Inirgh is an interesting fact. The idea from New York to Chicago in a littleover 1,000 minutes it sounds as if thecities must have been ilr;iwn closer to-gether in some mysterinus way. There >peaking, train mileage. of using standard time all over this Si.\ powerful Atlantic type engines continent is for the convenience of the are required to haul this train over the public, and to do it North .America has road, and changes arc made at Harris- Ijccn divided into a series of belts or
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KUIUTICK.N HOUR TK.MX (iX IIIK n-.XX>YL\ .\NI.\ R.MLROAD. is, of course, no mystery about it, forthe train covers the full 9I2!,4 statutemiles which separate Gotham from theWindy City in exactly 18 hours. Ittravels, therefore, at an average speedof 51.6 miles an liour, and this is some-thing over 75 feet a second. As a mat-ter of fact the train takes 17 hours and41 minutes to make the run from JerseyCitj to Chicago, the odd 19 minutesbeing consumed in crossing the Hud- burg, .Mtoona, Pittsburgh, Crestline andFort Wayne. The average run for eachof the engines is over 150 miles, theshortest being 117 and the longest 195miles. The train leaves New York onEastern standard time and arrives inChicago on Central standard time. Thehands of the clock are put back one hourat Pittsburgh to make this change, andthough the hour is dropped from the timetable at this point, it does not come out strips running north and south, andmeasuring everywhere 15 degrees wide,or at the equator something ove

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