Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1897 — Trains Will Slow Up a Little. [ARTICLE]

Trains Will Slow Up a Little.

According to the Indianapolis Journal the Ohio River roads, namely TheMonpn, the Big Four and the Pennsylvania, have entered into an agreement not to any longer break their respective necks in trying to make the runs between Chicago and Louisville and Chicago and Cincinnati in a few minutes less time than the others. Instead of their fast trains beingmade still faster, as has been asserted they would when their various improvements to tracks and roadbeds were completed, there is t j be an actual reduction in the running time of their fastest trains. Thus the fastest time to be made hereafter between Chicago and Cincinnati is to be 9 hours. At present the Monon makes it in 8 hours and 35 minutes. Between Chicago and Louisville the fastest time is to be 9 hours, 45 minutes. Now the Monon’s best time is 9:29 The railroad editor of the Indianapolis Journal is disposed to make a howl about this reduction es speed, but it looks to us like a sensible move. At present these fastest trains run too fast for safety or comfort of passengers and for economy of management.