Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1902 — 102 MILES AN HOUR. [ARTICLE]

102 MILES AN HOUR.

MILWAUKEE ENGINE ESTABLISHES A RECORD FOR FAST TRAVELING. Distance from Chicago to the Wiaeoneln City Covered In 87 Mlnutea—Beat Time Hitherto Made Waa One Hour and Thirty-Two Mlnutea. One of the Milwaukee’s new mammoth engines has broken the record between Milwaukee and Chicago. On New Year’s eve the new compound Atlantic type engine. No. 921, made the eightyfive and two-tenths miles from Chicago to Milwaukee in eighty-seven minutes, or one hour and twenty-seven minutes. The previous record is said to have been one hour and thirty-two minutes and the fastest schedule of the Milwaukee calls for the run in one hour and forty-five minutes. During three and four-tenths miles of the distance between Caledonia and Lakewood the train maintained a speed of a trifle over 102 miles per hour. The distance between these two stations, three and four-tenths miles, was made in exactly two minutes. Considering the fact that no preparation was made for the run, and considering the conditions, the run is remarkable. The train left Chicago at 10:15 p. m., twenty minutes late, the engine hauling six sixty-foot mail and express cars, and arrived at Milwaukee at 11:42, just two minutes late. The two terminals required slow time and there were slow downs for five railway crossings, one full stop at Western avenue, but no stops for water. Edgebrook to Stowell, seventy-two miles, was covered in sixty-five minutes, or at the rate of sixty-six and one-half miles per hour. The distance from Wadsworth to Western Union Junction, nineteen miles, was made in sixteen minutes, or at the rate of sev-enty-one and one-quarter miles per hour. Engine No. 921 has a loaded weight of 290,000 pounds; drivers, 8414 inches in diameter; a tender capacity of 19,000 pounds of coal and 7,000 gallons of water. The run by detail was as follows: Miles from Chicago. Time. Chicago 0 10:15 p. m. Pacific Junction 5.4 10:27 p. m. Edgebrook 11.2 10:34 p.m. Rondout 32.3 10:53 p. m. Wadsworth 42.9 11:04 p.m. Western Union June... 61.8 11:20 p.m. Stowell j ; ..83.2 11:39 p.m. Milwaukee ..85.2 11:42 p.m.