Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1899 — RECORD-BREAKING RUN. [ARTICLE]

RECORD-BREAKING RUN.

Burlington Fast Mail Makes an Average Speed of Eighty Miles an Hour. Another record-breaking run of the “fast mail” train of the Burlington road was made a few days since. The train left Burlington, lowa, thirty-six minutes late and arrived in Chicago on time. The distance is 206 miles, and was covered in 209 minutes, including all stops. The run of eighty-three miles from Mendota to Chicago was made in seventy minutes_the best time ever made between those points. The forty-six miles between Mendota and Aurora was covered in thirty-nine minutes. Nearly all the way there was a heavy head wind and the train was unusually heavy. Deducting the time for mail and water, the average rate of speed of \he train was about eighty miles an hour. During some spurts it is believed that a speed of ninety miles an hour was attained.