Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-20
Over the Pennsylvania Railroad by
DAYLIGHT

Daylight.
Probably the best specimen of an Amer
lean highway TO be found anywhere is the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad, between PittsbuTg
and New York. In sOlidity of construc-
ton, superiority of bridge architecture, and
smOothneSs of track, it is unrivaled.
Throughout its entire length il is laid with
a double track of steel rails, weighing
sixty-seven pounds TO the yard. These
rails are fastened on oak ties, imbedded in
broken stone ballast, with Splice-jOints be-
tween the ties, and so arranged that the
connection on one side comes opposite to
the centre of the rail on the other, thus
preventing the uncomfortable and mOnotO-
nous jar experienced on tracks constructed
according to the ordinary plan. The
rolling stock is rs near perfection
as human ingenuity and skill has, up to
the present time, been able to make it
Locomotives and cars are alike built by the
company in their own shops, and in the de-
tails OF materials, design and finish COM
bine the highest excellence attainable. To
all this is added rigid policy Of manage
ment, exacting the utmost care and eOuTte-
sy from employees of every grade, and the
application of those effective safeguards,
the Westinghouse air brake and the block
signal system, showing that whatever can
be accomplished for the safety of travellers
has been done on this great line of road
way.
This high standard Of excellence having
been reached. the managers Of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad feel warranted in taking an
other advance step for the special benefit OF
through travel, and Oh the lSt Of JunecOm-
train
Pit;sburg TO Philadelphia and New York,
with close connections AZ Harrisburg Tor
Baltimore and Washington, on the follow
ing schedule:
Leave Pittsburg at 10 A. NJ; Altoona,
lbs a. NJ; Harrisburg, 5:2j P. NJ; arrive
at Baltimore, 6:j5 T.. ~; Washington. 1902
p. NJ; Philadelphia, G:40 p. NJ; New ork,
$3.50 p. n.
The train leaving Nashville at $50 A. NJ.
connects with the above train al Pittsburg.
The magnificent run OF "A miles be-
tween Pittsburg and New FORK is made
with but three stOppages; the first, Of only
five minutes, at Altoona, after a stretch OF
III miles; the second, of twenty minutes,
for dinner, at Harrisburg, after an unbroken
dash Of 1872 miles; and tue third and last, OF
only five minutes, at Philadelphia, after a
run of 100 miles, leaving . single stretch
Of ninety miles across New Jersey to des-
tinatiOn. No time being lost in stopping,
the wonderful locomotive engines work
away with the regularity Of fixed maehin-
cry, taking their supply Of water from the
track tanks as they 90, aud carrying their
fuel with them; and the time IS made by
uniformity Of progress more than by an in
creased rate of speed. The train is made
up Of Pullman parlOr cars and the best OF
the COmpany's day coaches, all splendidly
upholstered, mounted on combination
springs, and furnished with plaie-glaSs
windows, through which the Landscapes
can be dis inCtly seen.
And here comes in the great charm OF
this daylight ride through Pennsylvania,
for the train leaves Pittsburg at a quarter
before eight in the morning add reaches
Philadelphia at a quarter before seven IN
the evening. It is no new thing to say
that the scenery on the line of the Penn
sylvania road is beautiful, and, in many
places, grand. Every American who traT-
els or reads has seen or heard of 1t, and
the pencils Of many artists haze labored
lovingly to portray, for popular gratlhca-
ton. the attractions Of the Allegheny
mountains; the Juniata, Susquehanna and
COnemaugh rivers, and the wonderful ag-
ricultural wales of Lancaster and Chester
counties, through which this road rams;
long sweeps of wooded hills; lofty noun
tains and dark ravines; picturesque val
levs opening into each other; sparkling
and placid waters; wide, rolling, pas
toral landscapes follow in rapid succession.
A clang of the bell. sinking away in the
rush of the train. signals town after town
and village after village. The dusty turn
pike, the dreamy canal, and the shaded by
roads are crossed and passed in flash. On,
on, on. goes this tireleSs train, over clear
track, Carrying the traveller by panorama
the like of which can be found nowhere
else on this continent, and probably not in
the world. After having breakfasted in
the Mississippi Valley and dined at the
capital of Pennsylvania, the passenger finds
himself seated at supper in the metropolis
| of New York, where the Atlantic thrObs
| and swellS in its ceaseleSs activity.
A few years AGO the man WHO should
| have predicted such a ride would have been
pronounced utterly and hOpelessly insane.
| Not even the most sanguiue enthusiast on
railroads. when their construction was COM
menced, dreamed of overcoming distance at
such a rate, and it is only because Of the
perfection Of machinery and the inventions
| Of science that it can be done now. But II
is a fact accomplished, reality of the day,
and all that is left for the people is to Won
der and enjoy.
THE Paris correspondent of the Ner
York Times writes: 1.-The WOOdhulls and