Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-21
FAST TRAINS
To Be Inaugurated on the Wheeling =
Lake Erie Railroad.
CLOSER BUSINESS RELATIONS
WILL THEN BE FOSTERED BE-
TWEEN WHEELING AND THE
TWO GREAT LAKE PORTS,
CLEVELAND AND TOLEDO
PARLOR AND DINING CAR SER
VICE ALSO CONTEMPLATED.

The present passenger schedule or
the Cleveland division of the Wheeling
e Lake Erie, formerly the Cleveland,
Canton & Southern Railway, win not be
disturbed until the first of November.
The road, it is stated, has some very
decided plans about its passenger busl-
ness. but it will not be in position be-
fore the time mentioned to carry them
into effect. In the first place, the
physical conditions of the road will
have to be altered SO as to make bet
ter connection with the main point, Ma
varre. At present, as it has been
stated several times, the Cleveland di-
vision passes on a trestle over the main
line tracks. There is a cross-over now
from one division to the other, but it
is in a peculiar place, running from the
line south of Navarro back up to the
main line. If it was desired, therefore,
to have the trains switched from one
track to the other it would not be nee
essary to run through Navarro toward
Coshocton and then come back to the
main line by the cross-over.
The line proposes to obviate this
difficulty and will lay the cross-over so
that it will be more convenient. In
deed, the officials are now buying new
land north and east of Navarro for the
purpose of laying the cross-over there.
AS soon as this piece of track is done,
and it is expected to be ready about
the first of November new passenger
schedule will be put on which will give
a thorough service between Cleveland
and Wheeling The officials have
plans for some record breakers on
time between these two cities. They
say that they now have a service in
connection with the Valley that makes
five hour and twenty-minute run be-
tween the two towns. 1t is proposed
to cut just one hour off this time and
get the trains down to running the
the distance in four hours and twenty
minutes. The plans are to have a
train that will leave Cleveland early In
the morning so that business man
may get to Wheeling and have five
hours for business and still be back in
Cleveland that evening.
1t is also proposed to have some
thing of the same service between
Wheeling and Toledo, so that all class
es will be cared for. The road has
pledged itself to the welding together
more closely Of Cleveland and Wheel
ing, and one of it's efforts will be to
establish a closer trade relation be-
tween the cities, so that a good bit OF
Wheeling business that now goes to
Pittsburg may be taken there.
The Wheeling officials also announce
that when the new passenger service
has been inaugurated there will be a
regular parlor and cafe car service
connected with the better trains, so
that a good deal of the time may be
saved by dining between the stations.
In fact, the road is contemplating an
elaborate service for line of its pro-
portions, and is in possession of the
money wherewith to carry out Its
plans. 1t is announced now, al
though not officially, that the road is
preparing to purchase new equipment
for it's passenger trains. This matter,