The New Trains
One of the most significant railway trials ever held in this or any country was that recently made between New York and Chicago, by the special train of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the “Twentieth Century” of the New York Central.
Although the two trains went by widely separate routes, they covered the required distance, over nine hundred miles, in the same time to the minute—19 hours and 57 minutes.
This is three minutes less than the schedule time allowed, and is fully three hours faster than any speed previously made over the same course.
As these new trains are now regularly on the schedules of their respective roads, the race will hereafter be an every-day occurrence, and we may look forward even to the lowering of this record.