St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-02
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
A WONDERFUL EXHIBIT AT THE c.
LUMBIAH EXPOSITION.
OLD AND NEW coNrRAsTED.I
An Elegant Building Filled With
Various Exhibits-The Famous
'John Bull" Train-DetaiIed
Display of the Workings of a
Great Transportation Organi-
ZntiOn

Special Letter to the Globe.
JACKSON PARK, CHICAGO, Sept. 3d.
| The special features adopted by the eX-
position have resulted in drawing
largely increased GRO 8ds to the fair, and
the fear that It would not be a financial
success mas long since been wholly dis
| sipated. The total attendances for the
twenty-eight days in May was but
| l,O3O,03T for week before last it was
S2,37S; of this number 2O2,3 72 was on
railroad day, or % per cent more than
the daily average. This record was
only exceeded on July 4, 2SS, 275; Hi
nois day. Aug. "a. 243, 951; Pennsylvania
day, Sept. Z, 203, 400: and transportation
day, Sept. 9, 231. 522. Iowa day was
near the 100000 mark and Ohio day only
few hundred short of that figure.
Speaking OF railroad day. one of the
local papers aptly remarked that it was
"a yestibuled, four-tracked affair, which
| started on schedule time and ran
through to the terminal without stop {.
1t made fast time every minute, and
was conducted by about the smootheSt
| set OF men in the country" There
were many features interesting alike to
| railroad men and to the general public,
but none more attractive than the eX-
hibit Of the Pennsylvania company.
The famous John BulP' train made
regular trips on the tracks of the Penn
| sylvania company to and from the ter
| minal gates, and thousands rode after
the most famous engine in the history
of railroading. The "John Bulr' en-
| CINE was the first engine used for pas
| senger traffic lin America, and was in
continuous service from 1881 till 1870,
when it was sent to the Smithsonian in
| stitution. April II it left New York
with the John Bull'' train, hauling it
TO Chicago without assistance, where it
| arrived on the 22d. and at once beca me
an interesting feature of the Pennsyl-
vania exhibit. The cars used on the
John Bull'' train were built in 1886,
| and, like the engine, were in use many
years. The engine was built in Eng
land in 1880, and was brought over in
| sections and landed in Philadelphia in
1881. Its trial trip was made in May,
1881, and a speed of ten miles an hour
was attained.
In May, 1880, fifteen miles of the B.
& o. had been opened to traffic, but
steam did not supplant horse power on
| it until 1882. The life OF railroading,
| commencing in 1880 with this few miles
of track. rapidly developed until in 1885
| there were LOGO miles in operation in
the United States, and railroad con-
struction was rapidly spreading
throughout the world. In the exhibit
| Of the Pennsylvania the beginning of
railroad life, its development and at
tainmentS, are entertainingly illustrated.
| We find specimens of the oldest ties.
| spikes, rails, roadbeds, and every APP
| pliance or device connected Herewith,
the oldest cars, engines and system Of
| switching, and the successive steps to-
| ward the high degree of excellence of
the present day. These are shown in
| part by sections of tracks constructed
as they were, by relief maps OF things as
| they were and are, by cases of relics,
| photographs, engraving5, ETC., and by
models and reproductions of cars and
engines, and by specimens of the old
and new in their own proper character.
| x,
| representative of modern depot, two
relief maps, intended to represent four
| centuries progress, strike the eve. No.
| l illustrates the arrival of Columbus in
his caravels, 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 trarspor-
tation then known i'll America, are also
shown. The white man introduces the
floating raft. the boat poled against the
tide. the rope ferry and the sail boat
The settlers wagon train. the best
means of TRANSFORMATION up to 100 years
ago. is in the foreground. Horses, cat
| tie, 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, 1872 to 1892, shows the Cones
| toga wagon, the stage coach and canal
boat. The original "Joh n Bull traIu"
is standing at the primitive open draw
| bridge TO let the steamboat Phoenix
pass. In the foreground, six decades
later, a freight train laden with grain is
shown, bound for the Atlantic; also the
Pennsylvania Limited express CONVEX
ing passengers to the worlds fair. and
the modern double deck ferry boat. and
other Pennsylvania railroad floating
equipments. The civil engineer stands
looking through his transit, supervising
the construction and maintenance of a
great roadway.
Next we have relief map showing
the old portage railroad crossing the
AlleghanieS at the foot of the western
slope of the mountains; the first rail-
road tunnel constructed in America,
near Johnstown. A section OF the main
line of the Pennsylvania is shown on
the opposite side of the Conemaugh
river, also the new bridge, mo. g." built
on the site of the old structure de-
stroyed by the JOhnstoWn food. An
other relief map shows the territory be-
tween Altoona, RolidaySburg and
JohDstown, and the line of the old
portage railroad in use 1882 to 1852, and
the main line 1852 to 1892, built so as to
avoid inclined planes. Still another
relief map shows the great Horse Shoe
curve. near the summit of the Allegheny
mountains, and the Chicago limited ex-
press with two locomotives, and the
forty-car grain train that ran from Chi
eagO to Philadelphia in 1892 without
changing locomotive. The grade of
lIllS curve 10 JOI2 1CCt W l1O ullics U6
track OH one side of the curve is II feet
higher than On the other. The distance
across the rayine is 1,130 feet. Another
relief map shows the New York ter
minal and its unparalleled advantages.
Statistical maps show the traffic and
mileage of the road. which is equivalent
to one ton of freight being carried
around the globe, $4,000 miles, in 6S
seconds, and one passenger in ~ sec
onds. One of its locomotives may be
said to travel around the globe every
two hours.
A chart locates every train in motion
on the Pennsylvania on Columbus day
in 1892 at O'Clock p. m, and key
stone shows the mileage of each of the
several divisions, aggregating 1879. Is
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