Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-03-30
New Train Service in the northwest.

New Train Service in the Northwest.
Modern travel is exacting. Tick
poets the finest in every thing and it
usually 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 ard Twin Cities-St, Paul and
Minneapolis-thed 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 beween st. Paul, Duluth and
the Pacific coast has been reasonably
good for a number of years.
The year 1900 is, however, to wit
ness a new and important departure
in the passenger train service in the
Northwest, and this is all the more
noteworthy, as it has only been
| forty-three years since Selah Cham
berlain. OF Cleveland. O.. commenced
the construct ton OF the first railroad
grade in the state of Minnesota. 1t
is also we'll to bear in mind that in
the United States. where the cost OF
railroad travel is less than in any 9th
err country, the finest passenger &C.
cOmmodations to be found in the
man OF means and leisure may, at in
conceivably short notice, transfer
himself and his family and servants
to fat, private residence, or a
Observation-Disclosures you WILTON
trucks, just as he moves from a city
fat or residence to lake cottage in
summer. and back again in the fall,
and then go securing over the coun-
try at forty, fifty or sixty miles an
hour, if he wants to. He can stop
when and where as long as he
pleases, and have with him con-
tinually his kitchen, dining room,
bedroom, library and sitting room
in a word his home: and what the
man Of wealth may thus do on a
large scale if he desires, the person Of
moderate means practically enjoys
whenever he wants to travel, in con-
nectiOn with others, for a moderate
and reasonable price. 1t is fairly un-
derstood now by the travelling pub
lie at large that the best passenger
train in the northwest is equal, if
not generally superior, to the most
luxurious trains to be found On the
Eastern lines.
The Northern Pacific railway was
the first projected trans-coptinental
line. 1t has five important eastern
enthusiastically, St. Paul. Mime
| apolis, Ashland, Superior and Du-
luth; three western terminals-Se-
! attic, Tacoma and Portland. When
the Northern Pacific entered the field,
some sixteen or seventeen years ago,
as a transcontinental line, it worked
Il revolution in passenger train ser
vice by the PRODUCTION OF dining
cars. which were then and are now
carried between st. Paul, Mimi; and
Portland. Ore, on all it's transcOn-
t!nentaI trains. For several years
the Northern Pacific has spent
enormous sums in shortening it's
road, substituting heavy rails for
light ones, revising it's grades and
curves, widening it's enbankments,
ballasting it's track, filling in trestles,
replacing wooden with steel bridges,
constructing heavier and more
powerful engines and building new
and attractive stations. The result
is line modern and up-to-date in
every respect.
The scenic features along the line
OF the Northern Pacific are well
known. Without referring in detail
to the wonders OF Yellowstone
National Park, first made accessible
by the completion of Northern Pa
cific railway: on no other line is it SO
evenly distributed, for it must be
borne in mind that the Northern Pa
cffic main line was constructed,
through the only settled portion OF
OF the northwest.
A new schedule is to go into effect
on this line April % next, and this
schedule will make a distinct ad-
vance in northwestern railroading.
Waiting until the fullness OF time had
come, until the field was ripe for the
sickle, it has had constructed for it a
transcontinental train, Or, rather
ten trains, 60 speak more accurately.
that take advantage of all modern
improvements, both in ideas and
construction, OF railway car builders.
In addition to the regular trains
now running, and which will be con-
I tinued on practically the present
time card, new train, which will
be known as the "North Coast
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