Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1895 — The Monon’s New Flyer. [ARTICLE]

The Monon’s New Flyer.

The much heralded new fast train over the Monon, to accommodate the travel from Chicigo to Atlanta, was put on last Sunday. From Chicago to Monon it is' part of the Cincinnati and Indianapolis vesbitule, which passes Rensselaer at about 12:30 p. m. At Monon the train is divided, and the new portion goes south, oV|er the old line. The Monon officials' claim that in some respects this is the fastest train in the country, as explain! <1 in the following from last Monday's Indianapolis Journal.

Erank Reed, general passenger agtnl of the Monon, demonstrates the co; redness of his claim that the Monon y< sterday put on the fastest train run io this country, all tilings cont>hi< nil. io the following statement: “la looking over our schedule for the n» w trains, Nt s. 1 and 2, I find that ii rinks among the fastest trains in the country, nearly equaling the 8 e»d of the Great Empire Express. The distance from Monon to Bloomington is IF3 miles; No. 1 covers ihat d>stance in three hours and ten minutes, making the run of 138 miles in 190 minutes. In that distance we make ten rail road-crossing stops, which will average a minute and onefa df; twice for water and oiling engine, which will take eight minutes, and four station stops, which will average twelve minuti s, making delays in the distance from Monon to Bloomington of thirty-five minutes, the 1 - west allowance yon can give, testing the actual running time for the 133 miles. 155 minutes I c insider this the fastest train of any single track road in the world. The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Limited trains leaving Chicago at 5:30 each evening, called the twenty-four hour train, from Chicago to New York makes the run from Chicago to Elkhart, a distance of ninety-nine miles, without a stop, in two hours and fifty minutes. We run 102 mites, Lafayette to Bloomington, making nine railroad stope, two regular passenger stops and take water twice, in two hours and thirty minutes. Take the Pennsylvania Limited that leaves Chicago for the East; they run from Chicago to Fort Wayne, a distance of 143 mites, in three hours and fortyseven minutes without a stop, and from Fort Wayne to Crestline, a distance of 132 miles, in three hours and five minutes, only one stop. This is about the distance between Moncn and Bloomington, which we cover in three hours and ten minutes, with ten railroad crossings and four station stops, also stopping twice for water. The Great Empire Express, with all its facilities, double and four-track road, from New York to Buffalo, makes very little, if any, better time than we do. They run from New York to Albany, a distance of 143

mtlea, in two hours and forty-five minutes, without a stop; from Albany to Syracuse, a distance of 148 miles, in two hours and fifty-five minutes, with one stop. When the Monon schedule is compared with these trains and their double trick, except the Pennsylvania, it can readily be seen that I am safe in saying that we have the fastest train on any single-track railroad in the country, or. in fact, in the vorld. ”