Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1901 — Testing a Fast Trolley. [ARTICLE]

Testing a Fast Trolley.

In Philadelphia a fast trolley car is being tested. It takes newspapers in the early morning to Chestnut Hill, fourteen and three-quarters miles away. It runs at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour, including a stop at least every three-quarters of a mile. Occasionally it has run a mile in a minute and an eighth and it has made the entire distance in twentyfive minutes, including stops, which is the same time as the express trains make for the same distance. It maintains it* schedule time regularly, but on one occasion it was late ten minutes, owing to the wreck of a hay wagon which was on the road.