Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-11-20
The Model Railway.

There is no link in the chain of rail
way across the American continent, fl ON
the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, that
has played so directly an important part
in that great continental railroad as the
link of five hundred miles composing
the CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAIL
WAY, from the inter-continental me-
tropolis- Cbicago-to the Missouri riv-
er at Omaha.
In starting westward from Chicago, ii
was the pioneer to connect with the
Union Pacific Railway it virtually made
that road practicable, and was substan-
TALLY the father of it. 1t thus earned
its well-deserved title, 1.-The Old Pioneer
That it in a measure exhausted itself f.
nancially in its rapid and forced con.
structiOn across the then unsettled but
rich prairies of Illinois and Iowa, ac-
counts for the fact that it was for some
time as its later day and wOuld-be rivals
put it, "a streak of rust" Yet its histo-
~, on a review, show it to have evel
been, as to time and to absence of acci
dents, "Cunard line" for safety, speed
and regularity at terminal arrivals. This
may be accounted for from its having
less gradients and curvature that its
new competitors to Council Bluffs, al
the same time being the shorter or ira
side line. 1t started its trains last from
termini and arrived first. 1t has evel
been the most accommodating for the
through passenger. This much for its
past history.
The last two or three years, in its
roadway, its rail, its equipment, has
witnessed the most wonderful change OF
any road in the East or West. 1t is now
the First-Class Railroad; second to
none, the equal, we think, the superior
of any, which justly entities it to the
appellation, The Model Railroad. GRAY
el ballast, white oak s,steel rails,stone
culverts, iron bridges, first-clasS engines
coaches that are airy and elegant for
comfort, having Miller couplings and
Westinghouse steam brakes, and attached
TO each train is one or more of those DlGTUels of
spiezdor, the Pullman Palace Hotel cars IN
soltch the trGueler eats and sleeps in more tuzu-
gI0us apartments than old soOrld pOtentates eUer
dreamed of. The matchless track, the
scientific equipment, has won for this
road, for its ease and comfort that mead
of praise, the triumph of art in railway
travel. Its praises should be ever sung
in the far Orient, and especially those
near lands that owe so much to the con-
tienntal railroad Colorado, Nevada and
California, and the distant occident-
that all may know of its well deserving
of the public's patronage. Quite in place
will it be here to say, thae that much
Travelled, Observant and skillful officer of
the United States Army, MajOr-General
Irwin Mcdowell, in passing over it the
other day, on his way to San Francisco,
was pleased to say of it: at is the finest
road ever travelled, either in Europe or
America"
The road has additional praises to
those of it's excellence of its construc-
ton, natural location, and perfect equip
ment, the esprit du corps of its employees
lends charm in their care, attention
and gentlemanly department, which adds
the cap sheaf, grace, to its material per-
fection.
For the year past it was road with
out terminal detention. Its greatly
increasing through travel and immense
way business will soon require double
track.-Republiean Dec. 7th, 1878.