Faster Trains

With the coming of daylight saving, U.S. railroads hiked the number of lightweight streamline trains to 115, up 75% in 17 months. Before 1941's end, at least 20 more will be added. Meantime many other trains were speeded up last week. Typical improvements:

> Between Boston and Washington the New Haven cut almost three hours from the running time of its best night express, the Federal, added a new day train 15 minutes faster than the speedy Senator.

> New York Central (through its own "Big Four") added a day-coach streamliner, James Whitcomb Riley, to the Cincinnati-Chicago beat, cut the time on the 303-mile stretch to 5 1/2 hours. >For the long New York-New Orleans haul, the Southern, earlier this month added three new Southerner trains, all day-coach streamliners.

> Seaboard's Silver Meteor and Atlantic Coast Line's Champion, all-coach streamliners which have made the New York-Florida run faster than the fastest Pullmans, had sleepers added to appease Pullman patrons.

> Pennsylvania added an all-coach streamliner, Jeffersonian, to the New York-St. Louis run with a schedule only ten minutes slower than the Spirit of St. Louis.

> Commuters between Detroit and Chicago got a big boost in service with three new trains added to schedules at the same time: the Red Bird and Chicago Arrow on 4 3/4-hour schedules (Wabash); The Michigan on a 5-hour schedule (Michigan Central).

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