Morris tribune., 1900-04-07
EEW TRAIN SERVICE IN THE
NORTHWEST.
uNorth Coast Limited" on the
Northern Pacific.

ususaIly gets it. The people of the
northwest section of the United States
are no exception to the rule. and so
far, at least, as concerns the train
service between Chicago, st. Louis
and the Twin Cities-St. Paul and
Minneapolis demands of the
public have already been met in a
handsome manner by the railroads.
1t is also true that the service on the
lines between st. Paul, Duluth and
the Pacific coast has been reasonably
good for number of years.
The year 1900 is, however, to wit
ness new and important departure
in the passenger train service in the
Northwest, and this is all the more
note worthy, as it has only been forty
three years since Selah Chamberlain,
of Cleveland, O., commenced the con-
struction of the first railroad grade in
tie state of Minnesota. 1t is also
we'll to bear in mind that in the
United States, where the cost of rail
road travel is less than in any other
country, the finest passenger accom-
modations to be found in the world
are provided today. The man OF
means and leisure may, at inconceiv-
ably short notice, transfer himself
and his family and servants to fiat,
private residence, or a mansion
whateve you will-on trucks, just as
he moves from a city fat or residence
to a lake cottage in summer, and
back again it the fall, and then go
securing over the country at forty,
fifty or sixty miles an hour, if he
wants to-. He can stop when and
where and as long as he pleases, and
and have with him continually his
kitchen, dining room, bedroom,
library and sitting room-in a word,
his home; and what the man of wealth
may thus do on large scale if he
desires, the person of moderate means
practically enjoys whenever he wants
to travel, in connection with others,
for a moderate and reasonable price.
1t is fairly we'll understood now by
the travelling public at large that the
best passenger train accommodation
in the Northwest is equal, if not
generally superior, to the most luxuri
GUS trains to be found on the Eastern
lines.
The Northern Pacific Railway was
the first projected trans-continental
line. It has five important Eastern
terminals-namely, st. Paul, Mime
apolis Ashland, Superior and Duluth;
three Western terminals-Seattle,
Tacoma and Portland. When the
Northern Pacific entered the field,
some sixteen or seventeen years ago,
as a trans continental line, it worked
a revolution in passenger train service
by t introduction of dining cars,
which we're then and are now carried
between St. Paul, Mimi and Port
land, Ore, on all of its trans-conti-
mental trains. For several years the
Northern Pacific has spent enormous
sums in shortening its road, substitut-
ing heavy rails for light ones, revis |
ing it's grades and curves, widening
its embankments, ballasting it's track
filing in trestles, replacing wooden |
with steel bridges, constructing
heavier and more powerful engines
and building new and attractive
stations. The result is a line modern
and up-to-date in every respect.
The scenic features along the line
of the Northern Pacific are we'll
known. Without referring in detail
to the wonders of Yellowstone Ma
tional Par K, first made accessible by
the completion of the Northern Paci
fic Railway, on no transcontinental
line does the average of unusual,
varied, striking, attractive scenery
run SO high, and on no other line is
it so evenly distributed, for it must
be borne in mind that the Northern
Pacific main line was constructed
through the only settled portion of
the Northwest,
A new schedule is to go into effect
on this line April % next, and this
schedule will make distinct advance
in Northwestern railroading Wait
ing until the field was ripe for the
sickle, it has had constructed for it
transcontinental train, or, rather ten
trains, to speak more accurately, that
take advantage Of all modern improve
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