Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-04
The Model Railway.

There is no link in the chain of railway across the American continent, from the At lantic to the Pacific Oceans, that has played so directly an important part in that great continental railroad, as the link of five hun
 dred miles composing the Chicago 6 North>
 Weste7n RatIao0y, from the inter- continental metropolis Chicago-to the Missouri river at Omaha
 In starting westward from Chicago, it was the pioneer to connect with the Union Pacific railway: 1t virtually made the road practi- cable, and was substantially the father of it. It thus earned it's well deserved title, ''The Old Pioneer" That it in q measure exhaust
 ed itself financially in its rapid and forced construction across the then unsettled but
 rich praries of Illinois and Iowa, accounts
 for the fact that it was for some time, as it's
 later day and would-be rivals smilingly put 1t,
 "a streak of rust" Yet it's history, on
 view, shows it to have ever been, to time
 and to absence of accidents a ''Cunard line"
 for safety, speed and regularity at terminal arrivals This may be accounted for from its
 hay ing less gradients and curvature than it's new competitors to Council Bluffs, at the same time being the shorter or inside line. It
 started it's trains last from termini and arrived first. It has ever been the most accommodating for the through passenger. This much for
 its past history.
 The last two three years, in it's roadway,
 it's rail, it's equipment, has witnessed the most wonderful change of any road in the
 East or West. It is now the First Class Rail
 road second to none, the equal, we think
 the superior, of any, which justly entities it
 to the appellation, The Model Railroad.
 Gravel ballast, white oak ties, steel rails,
 culverts, iron bridges, first-class engines,
 coaches that are airy and elegant for comfort,
 having Miller couplings and Westinghouse
 mgbrakes and attached to e1ch trdt7o ts one
 or naore ot th0se nl01-0eLs cf spleodor, the Pull
 man PGLace Hotel c1rs, i11 arlich the trGUeler
 e1ts and sleeps iza more tsGrstTi0As apartments
 thGn old Go0rEd 21Ote1ItGteS e0eT dreamed 0f. The matchless track, the scientific equipment,
 has won for this road for it's and com fort, 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 continent l al lrailroad-Colorado, Nevada and California, 1 and the distant occident-that all may know of it's we'll deserving of the public patronage. l Quite in place will it be here to say, that that l much travelled, observant and skillful officer | of the United States Army, Major-General 1 Irwin Mcdowell, in passing over it the other | day. on his way to San Francisco, was pleas 1 ed to fay of it: ''It is the finest road l ever travelled on, either in Europe or America. | The road has additional praises to those of it's excellence of construction, natural location
 and perfect equipment, the esprit du corps 1 of it's employees lends 8 charm in their care,
 attention and gentlemanly department, which ! adds the cap sheaf, grace, to it's material perfection.
 For the year past it was road without terminal detention. Its greatly increasing tn. ough travel and immense way business will soon require double track.