half the time, or twenty hours, way, has been at the throttle of fast New York Cen- engine—another of the Atlantic type—at Utica, for the In the cab, and rode on six different locomotives. For tral trains for an unbroken period of thirty years) and, experience of a comfortably set- dash by night in… … covering 920 miles; Here then was the the distance over Albany to Spurten Duyvil, 131.7 miles, was run in 131 minutes. Excluding the time lost in eight slowdowns, the average running speeJ wus B8 miles per hour ; weight of train, 352f% tons ; of engine, 144 tons. chance of a life- the New York Cen-…
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