Connecticut western news., 1880-03-31
Chicago and Northwestern Isai,road

1nore IS pOSSlDly no llnh III tne STeaO Tttil- way chain, stretching across the American Content, from the Atlantic coast to the Paci- fic slope, that forms so material part of that great continental railroad and is of such i'm portance as the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, running from the metropolis, Chica go, to the Missouri River at Omaha. In its construction from Chicago westward it was the first to connect with the Union Pacific virtually making that road practicable, and well deserves the title it won of the 'Old Pioneer" It had hard work as it forced it's way over the then unsettled but fertile prai ries of the States of Illinois and Iowa, but being the shorter or inside route and actually having less gradients or curvatves than its rivals to Council Bluffs, its records show achievements in speed, safety, regularity Q reliability unsurpassed, if equalled, by any competing line. It's improvements in the last two or three years have been simply remarkable, and the changes the most wonderful ever wrought in l the East or West, Tn it's roadway, rails and general equipment. It is now strictly first class, the model railroad, gravel ballasted, with steel rails, stone culverts, iron bridges. white oak ties, superior engines. airy and elegant coaches, supplied with the Miller couplings and Westinghouse steam brakes and attachments, in the shape of what have been called 'marvels of splendor," the Pull man palace hotel cars, in which the travelle, eats and sleeps in the most luxurious apart ments witfrall the comforts and conveniences of well stocked home. The matchless tracks and the scientific outfit of this road are trumphs of art in railway construction. But in addition to it's excelency of construction it enjoys the signal advantages of natural To- cation and management that, from the high est official to the most subordinate employee l sedulously cares for the convenience and sat | isfaction of it's patrons. During the past year it was without terminal detention and such is the increase of it's freight aud travel that g double track is necessitated The develop ment of the road is marvellous iron rails il 1865, steel rails in 1875, and steel rails and { double track in 1879.
 The Chicago and Nortl western Railroad operates nearly 2,2OO miles of road (the exac figures being ?, 2,l58) and reaches nearly every important point Tn Northern Illinois, Wiscon sin Northern Michigan, Iowa, Minne sota running many miles into Dakota. It trans ports millions of passengers annually, and it' freight carriage is simply enormous. From Chicago, westward you can trace it's Califor nia line, until you touch the Missouri river a Council Bluffs, opposite Omaha, a single TUT of nearly 800 miles. Northwestward, througl Madison, the capital of Wisconsin, anc through the pine woods of that State into Minnesota, 400 miles more Again, looking from Chicago, you can trace a line through Sparta, Wisconsin, La Crosse in the same State, Winona, Owatonna and New Ulm, il Minnesota and northwestward far into Dako ta 625 miles more of road. Again, coming to Chicago, we see two lines running north wardly-one along the lake shore to Milwau kee and thence to Fond du Lac, and the other running more inland through Janesville Watertown, etc., also to Fond du Lac, thence north through Oshkosh, De Pere, Green Bay and Escauaba to Negaunee, Ishpeming ane Marquette-another 44O miles of road Then we have line from Chicago to Elgn Rockford and Freeport another from Clinton Ia, to Anamosa, in the same State; another from Kenosoa, on Lake Michigan, to Rock ford, in Northern Illinois.
 Passengers to or from California, Colorado Utah, Nebraska, the Black Hills, Minnesota Manitoba, the East, West North or South should see that they are furnished tickets by this great line No other road has Pullman orFanys other form of hotel car.
 Considering the vast area of territory track ed by this road, the number of trains dally running, the freight and passenger business it transacts, its main lines and ramiications it's equipment, it's celebrated hotel cars, ano in short, the character of it's entire outfit. the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad eminently deserves the title of one of our grandest trunk lines. Daily Graphic, New York, May 2lst 1879.