Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1904 — Rock Island Makes a Record. [ARTICLE]

Rock Island Makes a Record.

The Rock Island has established a new record for fast time between Omaha and Chicago. May 22d, a special train of five cars, carrying the Anna Held Company, left Omaha at 1 a. m., arriving at Chicago at 12 o’clock boon. The actual running time was 9 hours and 58 minutes, and as the distance is 499 miles, the average speed was nearly 50 miles an hour. Stops for water were made at Atlantic, Brooklyn, West Liberty, Bureau and Morris. Engines were changed at Valley Junction and Rock Island, and 20 minutes -were lost at the la let place while the members of the company ate breakfast. A performance such as this, made without any special attempt to “break a record,” speaks volumvs for Rock Island men and methods, for it goes without saying that a speed of nearly a mile a minute for 500 miles is possible only when engines and men and track are of the highest standard.