Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1881 — Fast Time. [ARTICLE]

Fast Time.

The Brooklyn Eagle, speaking of the proposed fast train from Chicago to New York in twenty-six hours, says: “It will not be long before the journey to Chicago will uniformly be made in twenty-four hours for steel' rails, perfect road bed and improved machinery are rapidly combining to increase safety and celerity. It is piobable that in the large engines, of whicn Long No. 10 is a sample, the present type of locomotive has reached a climax. The high point of center of gravity and the enormous driving wheel have gone as far as they dan in producing speed,and hereafter some other plan must be deengine of a few years hence will be built upon a plan which recent experiments have proved to be entirely successful, namely, the introduction of double driving wheels, the inner one worked by shorter piston stroke, which imparts energy to the exterior wheels sufficient to attain a speed of 100 miles an hour. Stability on the metals is gained by lowering the boiler and furnace to within a few inches of the ground, and the momentum is unchecked by oscillation. Bo far the new locomotive has been in eve-y way satisfactory, and in a short time seventyfive miles an hour will cease to excite wonder.