Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — Fast Freight Run. [ARTICLE]

Fast Freight Run.

What is claimed to have been the fastest long-distance freight-run evae made in this country was made from Memphis to Kansas City by a special train loaded with bananas on June 18, the speed averaging 40.4 miles’aw hour for the 484 miles, and reachinga maximum of 64 miles an hour, which was kept up for six nVles.— [Chicago Herald-