The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-11-25
THE MODEL RAILWAY.

There is NO Ink in the chain OF rail.
way across the American coatinent
from the Atlantic 10 the Pacific Oceans
lthat has played so directly an important
part 10 that great continental railroad
as the link ~ fiee hundred miles c M
posing th Chicago 4 North Westerr
Railway, iom tae in'er coa.l"enrat me
,Sopp 80 -Chicago--to the Missouri riv
| er d, Omaha
In starting westward from Chicago. i
was the pioneeS to connect with the Un'
ion Pacific Railway; it virtually made
that road practicable, and was subslan
tally the father Of 1t thus earned it.
we'll deserved title, "The Old Pioneer
That it in measure. exhausted itsel
financially in its rapid and forced con
s,ruction across The then unsettled bu
rich prairies of Illinois and Iowa, &C
counts for the fact that it was for some
time as its later day and would-he rivals
smilingly put it, SO streak of rust -
Yet its history, on review, shows it Il
have ever been, as to time and to alb
sence Of accidents, "Cunard line" fol
safety, speed and regularity at termina
arrivals. This may be accounted FOL
from its having less gradients and cur
vature than it's new competitors TO Coon
Gil Bluffs, at the same time being th'
shorter or inside line 1t started it
trains last from termini and arrived first
1t has ever been the most accommoda
ting for the through passenger. Thi
much for its past history.
The last two or three years, in it
roadway, its rail, its equipment, has wit
messed the most wonderful change o
any road in the east or west 1t is nov
the First Class Railroad; second t
none, the equal, we think the superior
of any, which justly entities it to th'
appella,inn, The Model Railroad Grav
ell ballast, white oak ties, steel rails
stone culverts, iron bridges, first class
engines, coaches that are airy and ele
giant for comfort, having NJ iller coup
|lings and Westinghouse steam brakes
and attached to each train Is one or NOR
/ of those mnrrels of splendor, the Pullma'
Palace Hotel cars, in tohich the trdpele
eats and sleeps IN more luxurious apart
ments than old toorld potentates eper dream
ed of The matchless track, the scien
tiic equipment. has won for this road
for it's ease and comfort that mead o
praise, the triumph Of art in railwa.
travel Its praises should be ever sun.
in the far Orient, and especially thos
near lands that owe so much 10 The con
ltinental railroad-Colorado. Nevada ant
California, AMI the distant occident-
THAT all may know of its we'll deserving
of the puhlie's patronage. .Qrite il
place will it he here to say, that tha
much travelled. observant and skillfu
officer of the United States Army, Ms
ljor- General Irwin Mcdowell, in passin
over It the other day. on his wav to Sa
Francisco. was pleased to say of it: ~
is the finest road l ever travelled OF
either in Europe or America
The road has aoditional praises
those of it's excellence Of construction
natural location and perfect equipmen
the esprit du corps Of its employees lend
charm in their care, attention and ger
tlemanly department, which adds I'll
cap sheaf, grace, to it's material perfet
,ion.
For the year past 1t was road will
out q terminal detention. Its great
increasing through travel and immens
wav business will soon require adoub
track -Republican, Dec. z, 1873.