TRAVELLING AT THE RATE OF SIXTY MILES AN HOUR.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 174, 23 July 1879, Page 4

TRAVELLING AT THE RATE OF SIXTY MILES AN HOUR.

One of the fattest trains in tbe world is the Pensylvaoia pay car of the New York division, its schedule time bein? •ixty miles an hour. It takes ooly twenty boors for tbe distribution of a boodle of envelopes containing 150,000 dollars. In all 3.700 railroad men are paid on (bis division. Tbe employes are notified by telegraph of the exact bonr when the train will arive. On the homeward trip, with a selected engine and a roadway cleared of everything that ooold caoie either danger or delay, this tiny train, composed of only an engine and a car, often tests the eapaoity of steam power after a fashion that would make a Mississippi steamboat captain nneaay. And yet its accidents have been few. Once, when it waa tearing around a curve, it struck a hand-car, and the frightened Iraia hands clambered down on the pilot, and saw what seemed to confirm their worst fears. Tbe front of tbe engine was Uttered with elothin?. But a careful search revealed nothing more than clothing, and information tbat came aoon afterwords told of tbe escape of the laborers before their frail vehicle was struck. Not long ago there were picked up in one of the Trenton tunnels the remains of a man who had been struck by a train, and was so mangled that identification seemed impossible. Tbe corner of an envelope bearing his name, wbich was found in bis cloibing, showed thai he had been paid his salary Only three boors before. Just a month ago, when tbe car waa on its return trip, the news cime that the four had struck a man on tbe New Brunswick bridge. the man bad been warned that it was eotniog, but said he was a good runner, and no doubt could get over tbe bridge ahead of it. It is said to be au actual fact tbat bis body was thrown fifty feet into tbe air. It fell into a river twenty feet beiow. On the eDgioe, at foil Bpeed, the motion is much lees perceptible than in the car. A car swings sideways with more or less violence; a locomotive strains forward and seems to " pound " downward on tbe forward track. Express trains approaching with tbe swiftness vi tbe wind seem to be standing etiil until tbey are alongside, when they flash by with a roar tbat only lasts a second. Far away the landscape moves in two distinct arcs, tbe farthest object appearing to enrve majestically toward the track in front, while those near tbe railway start away from before tbe train and describe a graceful line that brings them to. ward the track again in tbe rear. The panorama bewilders the brain and tires tbe eye.