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David B. Jones Special
The ''David B. Jones Special'' was a one-time, passenger train operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway from Los Angeles, California to Chicago, Illinois at the request of David Benton Jones. David B. Jones was suddenly taken ill with cancer at his winter home "Pepper Hill" in Montecito, California.〔Wilson 2002: 13〕 This special rushed him to his Chicago physicians and surgeons at an average speed of .〔This article has 3 paragraphs on the Jones Special; 2 paragraphs on the Scott Special; and 1 paragraph each on the Nellie Bly; B. P. Cheney, Jr; C. P. Huntington; A. R. Peacock; H. P. Lowe; and Charles W. Clark specials.〕 This run was completed three minutes faster than the more famous 1905 ''Scott Special''. Although not part of the speed run, the train continued on to David B. Jones' summer home in Lake Forest, Illinois.
== Overall trip summary ==
The train left La Grande Station at Los Angeles at 11:33 PM May 5, 1923 Pacific Time and arrived in Chicago at 12:50 AM on May 8 Central Time. The journey was completed "in exactly 47 hours and 27 minutes."〔This should be 47 hours ''17'' minutes with the two-hour time-zone difference. Some newspapers accounts use the erroneous ''27''-minute figure; others use the correct ''17''-minute value.〕The actual running time was only 44 hours and 51 minutes which deducts time spent for stops such as those for coal and water and the 55-minute delay caused by the breakdown of a Union Pacific locomotive ahead of the special at Nebo, California.〔 The running time was therefore three minutes less〔But notice that the ''Scott Special'' traveled between Los Angeles and Chicago; The ''Jones Special'' traveled between the same cities.〕 than the ''Scott Special''. Thus, the average speed was and the average running speed was . It was "a phenomenal run when compared with the regular Santa Fe limited time of sixty-eight hours and thirty minutes." The $11,000 special thus saved about 20 hours over the time of the regularly scheduled train. ($11,000 is equivalent to $ in present-day terms.) "Mr. Jones' daughter, Gwendolyn〔Actually, her name was Gwenthalyn Jones〕 Jones; his brother (D. ), a doctor and two nurses accompanied him on the trip."
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