Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1901 — Speed of Locomotives Tested. [ARTICLE]

Speed of Locomotives Tested.

A locomotive on the New Jersey Central Railroad was recently tested with a train of nine coaches, and made over three miles at the rate of eigthytwo miles per hour, and these performances can be repeated regularly. This is not to say, however, that the average rate of speed of American locomotives is over eighty miles per hour, for it is very much less, but it shows that they have a force in reserve which can be called on in emergencies to make up lost time. The only occurate data for comparing the performances of locomotives are what are technically called “train sheets.” These are official records compiled for the officers of the roads,in which “nothing is extenuated or aught set down in malice,” and they show that, compared with foreign locomotives, our own are far ahead in all that constitutes efficiency, speed and economy.