Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1889 — END OF A NOTABLE TRIP. [ARTICLE]

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The Pan-American Delegates Arrive at the Capital in Good Shape. Washington dispatch: .Just forty-two days after the morning of Oct. 3, when the special train bearing the International American excursion party pulled out of Washington, the same train, headed by the locomotive which had drawn it nearly 6,000 miles, rolled triumphantly into the Capital city and drew up at the station, having successfully completed the most in-, teresting and, from a railroad standpoint, the most extensive trip ever undertaken by one train. It was planned that instead of taking the more direct southern route from Philadelphia to Washington, the train should run down by way of Harrisburg, so that the delegates might see the beautiful Susquehanna valley and the rich farming lands of that part of Pennsylvania. The plan was followed, but unfortunately the country was not seen at its best, as the lowering skies and the heavy, driving rains confined the landscape within narrow bounds. The big locomotive, weighing 95,000 pounds, drew the entire train over every foot of the 5,825 miles, and came to a full stop in the station as fresh and as powerful as when it steamed out the morning of Oct. 3 No record for speed was made or broken but a record for continuous prograss has been established by the locomotive which is unequaled in railroad history. It is the general rule of railroad management that no passenger locomotive drawing a first-class train shall run a greater distance than 100 or 150 miles without being changed. Yet this locomotive has on several occasions covered 300 .miles in good schedule time, and on the run from Omaha to St. Louis it performed the unexcelled feat of making 4.67 miles in eighteen hours.