Reversed Adage

An old railroad adage holds that "the faster a passenger train moves, the more other traffic is retarded." Reason: when an express meets or overtakes a local or freight on single-tracked lines, the slower train has to be shunted temporarily onto a siding. In the East, almost universal adoption of double tracks has eliminated this trouble, but in the West many railroads are still largely single-tracked. Last week, one such road, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, announced that it had reversed the old adage. Burlington has cut train time between Chicago and Denver from 30 to 16 hours by introducing streamliners which are on the line so short a time that they only meet or pass about 20 other trains to the standard passenger train's 30. Result: a speed-up of all traffic along the line.

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