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"McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896"

........... 5 " 10-55-39
Dunkirk.................................. 4 " 10-58-54
Silver Creek............................. 9 " 11-06-05
Fairhaven................................ 5 " 11-10-33
Angola .................................. 5 " 11-14-14
Lake View................................ 7 " 11-20-11
Athol Springs............................ 4 " 11-24-39
Buffalo Creek............................ 8 " 11-30-34
Total distance Erie to Buffalo
Creek................................86 "
Total time for the 86 miles.... 1-10-46
Average speed over division..............72.91 miles per hour
So remarkable are these figures, considering the type of engine
used, that an English technical journal has, since the run was made,
scientifically demonstrated to its own satisfaction that it was an
impossibility. Well, it is the impossible which sometimes happens.
Through all the running at these wonderful speeds the train moved with
singular smoothness.


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