Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-16
The Richmond and DanviIle Railroad.

lhc local depot OF the hlchlnond
and Danville Railroad Company is
lotated at the corner Of Duke and
Henry streets, and the local line is
known as the Virginia Midland which
extends from Dahville, Va, to Wash
ington, d. G.
This line is the only route via
Washington operating Pullman sleep
ers from New York to Atlanta,
Montgomery, and New Orleans with
out change.
There is no other dining car line
from New York to the South. It
runs on peerless time, and gives ire
proachable service
The Richmond and Danville Rail
road is the greatest Southern sys-
TEN.
They have recently introduced a
new flyer, named the United States
Fast Mail, which is one of Americas
best equipped and fastest trains.
This train is an innovation in South
eln travel and is fair sample of the
enterprise that the Richmond and
Danville company purposes carrying
out in future. In connection with
the Pennsylvania Railroad the United
Stated Fast Mail leaves Washington
at lilo A. NJ, arriving at Atlanta at
seven o'clock A. M. the next day.
D.. ~ "a +bo Na1,- Vorl- ,,,prDiuu
papers are delivered in all the large
cities of the Gulf States twenty-four
hours after being taken from the
presses. The first fast train of this
kind put on by the Richmond and
Danville was the Washington and
Southwestern Limited, which runs
solid from New York to New Orleans,
and is proving to be the best train
ever run between the two points, as
well as the fastest.
The following is from Forest and
Stream On. ", February %, 1898:
From the Nations Capital to the
cities of the interior, coast and gulf
beyond Mason and Dixon's line,
naversing a country rich in romances
of the past and richer in promises OF
future greatness, with thriving cities,
stretches the great highway from
North to South-the Richmond and
Danville Railroad system. Into a
land of sunshine and warmth, poetry,
ease and prosperity and progress
withal, this great system penetrates,
circling in its hundred arms OF fairest
cities of modern empire. The
splendid service offered by this sys-
TEN to reach all Southern cities and
winter resorts, places it among the
leading systems of America. By this
route the traveller enjoys all the
Injuries of n modern home in the
palatial hotels. In the journey to
any of the Southern cities on resorts,
he travels in the most elegantly APP
pointed cars, through country rich
in historical associations, over rail
road that is perfectly equipped from
the ballast of the roadbed to the
table service in the dining cars. His
comfort is provided for on every
hand, and travelling is made what it
should be, a delight. The tram
service OF the Piedmont Air Line, as
the Richmond and Danville main line
is popularity called, is noted for its
excellence. The pride of the system,
and one of the finest trains III Amerl-
ca, is its Washington and Southwest
ern limited vestibuled train that leaves
New York daily over the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad at 4.30 p. NJ; Phila-
delphia, 6.55 P. NJ; Baltimore, 500
P. NJ, and Washington, 1913 I. Nj,
The route of this flyer from Wash
ington to Atlanta is over the Rich
mond and Danville main line, and on
to New Orleans over the Atlanta u
West Point and Louisville & Nash
vile Railroads, arriving in the
Crescent City at 7,25 o'clock on the
second morning The limited is a
solid Pullman train, composed only
of dining and sleeping cars, the only
train of the kind between New York
and the South. On this train is
carried a Pullman car from Washing
ton to Memphis, via Atlanta and
Birmingham, and from New York to
Augusta, via Charlotte and Columbia,
making immediate connections at
Columbia with Southbound trains
for Savannah and South Carolina
railroad trains for Charleston. The
connecting trains all carry Pullman
pulor cars and help make the trip
in the quickest time ever made-less
than twenty-four hours from New
York to Southern seaport cities.
This train also connects at Atlanta
with Pullman trains for Jacksonville
and Tampa. Fla, via the Suwanee
River route.
For rates and sleeping car reserva-
tons, call on OF address H. P. Clark,
G. E. P. Agent, and Alex. S. Thweatt,
E. P. Agent, 229 Broadway, New
York. or Waldo A. Pearce, P. Agent,
and George c. Daniels, t. P. Agent,
22S Washington street, Boston, Mass,
or F. B. Price, P. Agent, 80 So. Third
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