SEVENTY - FOUR MILES IN SIXTY-SIX MINUTES.
What is the fastest railway time on record was made recently between Lima and Dayton, Ohio. Mr W. H. Vanderbilt passed through Dayton en route for Cincinnati, in a special train consisting of two coaches and an engine, which made the distance from Lima, seventy-four miles in sixty-six minutes. The train went from Dayton to Hamilton, according to telegraphic information from there, a distance of thirtyfive miles, in thirty-six minutes. It started from Detroit, making the entire trip to Cincinnati, 263 miles, over the Canada Southern, Dayton and Michigan, and Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton lines, in five hours and thirty minutes, an average of 50'7 and hour, a number of stops were made, and engines were changed three times, at Toledo, Lima, and Dayton. The run between the latter place and Cincinnati was made in one hour and nine minutes. The train was run through all the cities at a rate of speed complying with established regulations. It is estimated that in some places the train travelled a mile in from forty-eight to fifty-two seconds.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2530, 31 July 1884, Page 3
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