Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — The Monion's New Flyer. [ARTICLE]

The Monion's New Flyer.

The much heralded new fast train over the Monon, to accommodate the travel from Chicago to Atlanta, was put bn 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 over the old line. The Monon officials claim that in some respects this is the fastest train in the country, as explained in the following from last Monday’s Indianapolis Journal. Frank Reed, general passenger agent of the Monon, demonstrates the correctness of his claim that the Monon yesterday put on the fastest train run in this country, all things considered, in the following statement: the new trains. Nos. 1 and 2, I find that it ranks among the fastest trains in the country, nearly equaling the s: etd of the Great Empire Express. The distance from Monon to Bloomington is lc3 miles; No. 1 covers that distance in three hours and ten

minutes, making'the run of 133 miles in 190 minutes. In that distance we make ten railroad-crossing stops, which will average a minute and onehalf; twice for water and oiling engine, which will take eight minutes, and four station stops, which will average twelve minutes, making delays in the distance from Monon to Bloomington of thirty-five minutes, the lowe>t allowance you can give, leaving the actual running time for the 133 miles, 155 minutes I consider 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, adistance of ninety-nine miles, without a slop, in two hours and fifty minutes. We run 102 miles, Lafayette to Bloomington, making nine railroad stops, 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 miles, 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 Monon 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 fill 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 miles, in two bour3 and f iriy-five minutes, without a stop; from Albany t^S jracuse, 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 track, 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 world.”