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San Francisco/Oakland
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San Francisco/Oakland speed records
The total Nellie Bly Special run was "2, 577 miles in exactly 69 hours, an average speed of 37-1/3 miles an hour"

Kansas City
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Kansas City speed records
Between Albuquerque and Kansas City, the 918 mi trip was made at an average speed of 46 mph--which included traversing both the Glorietta and Raton mountain passes. The peak speed was 60 mph.

The average speed from La Junta to Kansas City was 50 mph.

The 67 mi trip from Topeka to Kansas City was made in 70 minutes for a running speed of 57 mph. "Between Topeka and Kansas City we ran 13 miles in 11 minutes" for a running speed of this portion of the run of 71 mph.

Chicago
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Chicago speed records
The normal scheduled time between Oakland and Chicago was eighty-four hours, for an average speed using the same distance of 30.6 mph.

The 1030 mi from La Junta to Chicago was completed in twenty-four hours 12 minutes for an average speed of 42.5 mph "which is considerably better than the speed of the Pennsylvania limited for a distance 128 miles less.". Of this, 120 mi were covered in 118 minutes for an average speed of 61 mph. Also in the run from La Junta to Chicago, 69 mi were covered in 53 minutes for an average speed of 78.1 mph.