McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-10-11
A Wonderful Feature In Western
Travel.

Very remarkable and important is the
fact that the bulk of railway travel be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific states is
principally enjoyed by certain lines, be-
cause Of their superiority of equipment,
track, road-bed, time schedule, and
train service. The road that has re-
ceived this preference from Chicago,
Peoria and st. Louis to Council Bluffs,
Omaha, Kansas City, St. Joseph, Atch-
ison and Denver, and all points in Hi
nois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas
and Colorado, is unquestionably the
Grand Burlington Route-ChicagO Bur-
lington & Quincy Railroad only
line under one management from the
first three cities named, through to
Denver direct.
The great regiments of the Grand
Army of the Republic were carried in
elegant style, and with perfect satisfac-
ton, to and from Denver, by the Bur-
llngton Route, and now the Associated
Press kilograms, and newspapers and
newspaper correspondents generally
tell us that two-thirds of the Knights
Templar, journeying to San Francisco,
have gone over tins famous line, the
New England Communicates specially
chartering, and thus journeying from
ocean to ocean in trains, that were sent
from Chicago to Boston, of the Burling-
toms own rolling stock, because of its
superlative equipment, making. it evil
dent that while it is popular with all
classes of travel, the route is given
special preference by those choice in
taste, desire and favor, and thoroughly
competent to discriminate between true
worth, excellence and enterprise, and
lack of system, energy and progression.
Possessing such features as owning
and operating the longest, and yet
most direct line: to and through the
most populous cities and grandcst agri-
cultural portions of the west; running
trains over the solidest road-bed and a
track laid with steel rails, all equipped
with the latest and best appliances for
safe, speedy and comfortable travel,
and hauling the finest passenger, Pull
man, parlor, dining and smoking cars,
connecting in union depots; engaging
polite, accommodating train service
making rapid transit, prompt and close
connections, and the lowest possible
rates of transportation, are cogent rea-
sons why the Grand Burlington Route
should receive this partially, and why
it is preferred by, and is carrying the
heaviest portion of travel to and from
the Pacific coast; and is known as the
'tinest equipped railroad on the CONT
nent.n
The Burlington system consists of
six grand divisions, designated the
Chicago, Galesburg, Eastern, Middle,
Western, St. Louis, and Kansas City
divisions. These six main sections con-
tain in all thirty subdivisions, (which are
mainly branches and feeders. The
company's most important terminal
marts in Illinois are Chicago, Peoria,
Streator, Rockford, Freeport, and Clin-
ton; in Iowa, Burlington, Des Moines,
Keokuk, Council Bluffs, Fontanelle,
and several other lesser towns; in Mis-
souri,, St. Louis and Kansas City; in
Kansas, Atchison; in Nebraska, ON
aha, Columbus, Central City, Kearney
Junction, and several other points, and
in Colorado, Denver. The main cities,
otherwise than terminal, are Quincy,
Rock Island, Mendoza and Galesburg
in Illinois; in Missouri, Hannibal, St. |
Joe; in Iowa, Burlington and Keokuk,
and in Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
City, Hastings, and other places along
the line, making in all ], ZOO in number,
which have a population of about
100000.
If seeking farming lands, no finer
dots the face of the earth than those
traversed by the Burlington Route. |
Grass, trees, and the like, and the
emblement of the land, are bounteous
rewards for the slight labor the tilling
of the soil requires. The seasons are
even and regular, and no severe winters
prevail, and compel laborious efforts
to ward off and provide against their
hardship.
If it is the game of the field, the
forest, the stream, or the mountain,
that you would slaughter, bear in mind
that no road has a territory more
plentifully supplied than that traversed
by the Burlington Route.
If looking for the majesty of natures
grandeur, picturesque beauty and scenic |
sublimity; remember that the Burling-
ton Route leads to their superlative CEN
ter and eminence, the Rocky Noun
tains. Trains are so arranged as to af-
ford daylight rides through the most
enjoyable scenes, and elegant open OBJ
servation cars are attached to express
trains through the Royal Gorge ana
Black Canon.
Through the Heart of the Cont
nent, " Summer in Northern Iowa and
Minnesota" and Landscape Wonders /
of the Western World" are three very