Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-11-22

what isa Trunk LInet

Thereaders of the newspapers Of the day con-
stantly see mention made of Trunk Line rail
roads, but comparatively few fully understand
what is intended by the designation Some
three or four railroad lines running westward
from the Atlantic sea-board, are sometimes
not wrongly called Trunk Lines, as they form
the main arterios of traffic toward the West.
If any railroad in the country deserves or is
entitled to the name of grand Trunk Line,
il is the Chicago & Northwestern Railway.
The company operating this great line now
controls more miles of railway than any other
in America, il not in the world. II is by all
odds the most important line of railroad in
any way connected with Chicago No other
road running out of Chicago carries anything
like as many passengers or hauls anything
like the volume of freight that is transported
over this road. 1t alone runs in and out of
Chicago every day in the year, nearly ms
many passenger trains as all the other Chica-
go roads put together. As it is with passen-
ger trains so ii is with Freight not unfre-
quently brings into Chicago fifteen hundred
loaded freight cars in single day, and If it
does not bring in "A thousand cars its managers
think il is doing poorly. Forty to fifty pas
senger trains daily, leave and arrive at its de-
pot at Chicago. OF suburban passengers it
carries more than all the other ronds that run
to or from Chicago. These are facts that
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So No road but the very best could do the
business that this great line does. It's track
is of the heaviest steel rail, and is kept in
constant repair by the constant vigilance Of
an army of trackmen, and is patroled day
and night the year through, for the double
purpose of keeping every thing connected
with it in perfect condition. and for the en-
tire safety Of its patrons who are trav, ling
over it.
No road any where can show superior
track, finer coaches, stronger, swfter or bet
ter locomotive engines; and no other road
west of Chicago have ever attempted to APP
proach it in its equipment Of Pullman Hotel
and Sleeping Coaches. It alone of all the
western roads has the celebrated Hotel cars,
and on this line only can the traveller he
tween Chicago and the Missouri river pro-
cure the comforts and Injuries that these cars
alone can furnish. Other lines may talk of
Dining cars, and sixteen-wheel coaches, but
not one of them can offer you Pullman or
any other form of Hotel car. These cars
combine great luxury with the greatest OBJ
tainable comfort, and at no increase in cx-
pense over the common, old fashioned aud
ordinary Sleeping car. The marvel of those
that travel on them is to know how the COM
pany can afford to run them and charge no
more for berths than is charged in the old
fashioned sleeper The answer is found in
the great volume of travel this road is carry
ing The thousands flock to its lines where
the hundreds seek its competitors. We are
sure that no one who has once seen these cars
would ever use any other if travelling in the
direction they run.
They are not for the exclusive use of the
rich, but are Just as comfortable and elegant
for the poorer costing to occupy
these cars, no more than docs the occupancy
of the old fashioned sleeper, no one need for
fear of expense, be prevented from using
them. They have become the rage" so to
speak, with the Californans, and have at
tracted the majority of that class of travel.
If you are about to travel east or west be-
tween Chicago and Council Bluffs Omaha
Denver or San Francisco, it will pay you to
see that you get your tickets 10y the Chicago
q Northwestern Railway. At some future
time We may give you further idens about
this great road Tile D,mOcydt