Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-10-13
A RAILROAD DISPLAY,
The Tribune Correspondent Writes
of Some Railroad Displays at
the Fair.
The Pennsylvania Railroad And Its
Excellence Seems to Attract
Attention.
And He Tells of Railroadine of The
Past and of Our Present
Day.
Railroad improvements.

commemorate the discovery of America
by Columbus and to illustrate by ex-
amples Of what was and is the
of the past 400 years, but more especi-
ally the advancement of the past 100
wears. In no field is the march of
progress better represented than in the
line Of transportation and the exhibit of
the Pennsylvania railroad better Illus
trates this than perhaps any other.
After speaking of the special attractions
offered by the management and the
effect in drawing largely increased
crowds and especially of transportation
day and the excursion of the "John Bull
Train" on the tracks of the Pepnsyl-
vania railroad, Col. Lounsberry of the
TRIBUNE, writes: Thousands rode after
the most famous engine in the history
of %railroading. The "John Bull" engine
was the first used for passenger traffic in
America aud was in continuous service
from 1881 till 1870, when it became the
property of the Smithsonian institution.
April 18th it left New York with the
John Bull Train," which it hauled
through to Chicago without assistance,
where it arrived April 22d and has since
been an interesting feature at the
Worlds Far in connection with the
Pennsylvania exhibit. The engine was
built in England in 1880, and was
landed in Philadelphia IN 1881, and on
its trial trip made the then unpre.
ceaented speed of ten miles an hour.
The cars on the "John Bull Train were
built for service on the old Amboy road
in 1886, and after many years use we're
cast aside and lay on a farm near South
Amboy where they were used as a
chicken house for twenty years, but were
resurrected for the purposes of this exhi-
bition, new wood work being euppliedin
part.
Though steam was not used in con-
nection with railroading in the United
States until 1881 the life of railroading
in America commenced in 1880. At
that time the B. & o. had fifteen miles
in use. From this time on construction
spread rapidly in the United States and
in 1895 the mileage aggregated 1000
miles. The exhibit of the Pennsyl-
vania is especially devoted to the begin
ming and development of railroad CON
%struction and to the exempllfcation of
the high attainments Of the present day.
They show example Of the old time road
beds, ties, rails, spikes, tracks, switches.
and every article Of railroad equipment
in comparison with the present. There
are photographs and e~ngravings of old
time scenes, copies Of old time news
papers, old time tables and bulletins,
passes, orders. checks and punches.
Stage coach illustrations and models,
models of old a and engines, an old
seat from the passenger coaches of sixty
years ago, made of unplaned boards,
buckets, wrenches, side stakes from the
surveys etc. Fully 100 hanging racks
and a large number of cases are devoted
to these ~relicts.
AS you enter their elegant building,
which is a representation OF a modern
depot, two relief maps strike your eye.
They illustrate the progress of the past
four centuries. No. l, the arrival of
Columbus in his ~caravels which are
shown in the background. He finds the
red man in possession. The squaw is
seen carrying her papoose and the brave
is returning from the hunt laden with
game. The Indian traveaux and canoe,
the only means of transportation then
known in America are shown. The white
man introduces the floating raft,
the boat poled against the cur
rent, the rope ferry and the
sailboat. The settlers wagon train, the
best means of transportation up to 100
years ago, is in the foreground. Horses,
cattle, sheep, swine and agricultural i'm
PIGMENTS for stocking and developing
the pastoral and agricultural interests of
the great west accompany the train.
No. 2-1792 to 1892, shows the Cone
stoga wagon, the stage coach and canal
boat. The original "John Bull" train is
standing at the primitive open draw
bridge to let the steamboat "Ph@nix"
pass. In the foreground, six decades
later, a freight train laden with grain
bound for the Atlantic and the Pennsyl-
vania limited express conveying passen-
gers to the Worlds Fair. Also the
modern double deck ferryboat, and other
pennsylvania Railroad floating equip
ments. The civil engineer stands look
ing through his transit, supervising the
Construction and maintenance of q
great roadway.
Next we have a relief map showing the
Oh Portage railroad crossing the Ale
ehenies at the foot of the western slope
t the mountains; the first railroad tun-
hel constructed in America, near Johns.
town; a section of the main line of the
pennsylvania is shown on the opposite