The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-06-13
Atlantic In 1890.
READING RAILROADS DOUBLE TRACK
LINE TO THIS SEA-

Atlantic City is not only the great
est health aud pleasure resort in Amer
lea, but in many respects it is the most
unique and interesting seaside
city in the world In extent and va
riety of its attractions it is absolutely
without an equal, and the exceptional
ly excellent facilities for reaching it,
together with the moderate expense in
volved, render 1t a most desirable
place to spend vacation.
The summer of 1890, it is confident
ly predicted, will be one of such bril-
lisncy as will totally eclipse any pre-
vious season at the "Queen City of
the Atlantic Coast" apd the most ex-
tensive preparations have been made
to insure the proper reception and
entertainment of the expected hun
dreds of thousands of visitors. To
provide for the safe and speedy transit
of these great throngs is a problem of
no small proportions, and one of the
railway lines has met it with character
istic boldness and liberality by double
tracking its road from the Delaware
River to the Atlantic Ocean.
The Reading Railroad Company,
whose magnificent Atlantic City line
last year earned for itself the appella.
ton Of the "Royal Route to the Sea,
has still further perfected its seeming
ly perfect road, and means to make it,
this season, shining example of the
fastest and most luxurious railway
travel in the world. A few years ago
two hours from Philadelphia to Allan
tic City was extremely quick time; in
1889 the Readings celebrated -Four
o'clock Flyer" reduced it to 80 min.
utes. At one time anything that
would run on wheels and keep the
track was deemed good enough con-
veyance for the seashore pilgrim. The
Reading revolutionized this by placing
on its Atlantic City line complete
equipment of palatial Pullman-built
coaches, finished and polished in hard
woods and velvet, each of them very
dream of luxury, in addition to large
number of Pullman palace cars. That
awful nuisance, the soft-coal locomotive
with its clouds of sulphurous smoke
and its binding showers of cinders,
was early banlshed from the Reading 8
line, and its patrons now ride down to
the sea behind the feetest of iron
steeds, fed on bright hard anthracite,
and reach their designation clean, cool
and serene.
Not content with its conspicuous
triumphs of last year, the Reading
management has made anothar long
stride to the front by double-tracking
its Atlantic City line over its entire
length, and it now boasts the first and
only double track railroad between the
Quaker City and the Sea. While a
single track road, carefully operated,
is unquestionably safe, it is an indis.
putable fact that double track road
must be safer. In addition TO this
very obvious advantage, the use of two
tracks ensures quicker time and great
or certainty AMI romptness in the
movement of trains.
The Headings new depot in Atlantic
City is the largest and handsomest on
the Coast; its two stations in Pnila-
delphia, at Chestnut and South st.
wharves, are commodious in arrange
ment and convenient in location, and
the equipment and appurtenances fully
adequate 10 meet the most exactiDe
demands of the many who will make
seashore pilgrimages on the "Royal
Reading Route"