The Dickinson press., 1900-03-03
"North Co asst Limited"
TILE OF NEW TRAIN ARRANGED BY THE
NORTHERN PACIFIC.
1t viii Carry an Observation Car Between
Portland and St. Pau1-.-Modern
improvements.

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Portland Oregonian: General Passen-
ger Agent Charles S. Fec, Of the North
crn Pacific railway, who reached Port
land Thursday, announced that April 20
his company will establish a double daily
passenger train service between Port
land, Puget Sound and the Twin cities,
St. Paul and Minneapolis.
The morning train from St. Paul will
leave at S:55, after the arrival of the fast
trains from Chicago, ST. Louis and the.
East, running by the way of Butte, and
will reach Portlan at 7 a. m. The cor
responding train will leave Portland a,
Il:3o Il. m. by the way OF Butte, and will
reach St. Paul at 3 p. m. and will be
known as the North Coast Limited"
Train No. 3 will leave St. Paul as at
present, 1885 p. M, arriving at Portland
at 8 p. IN. Train No. 4 will leave Port
land at 1890 p. nj. and arrive at St. Paul
7:45 a. m. Both 3 and a will run by way
Of Helena. The schedule will continue
in effect until November 1, and longer if
the business j%ustitics it. Trains ; and a
will carry the same equipment as present
| and 2, first and sccond-class coaches,
Pullman hrst-class and Pullman tourist
sleepers and dining-cars, with the usual
number of mail, express and baggage
cars. These trains will carry standard
and tourist slcepers from and lost. Louis
by the Billings route, the Burlington
thus offering the public a service to the
Missouri river country, St. Louis and in
termediate territory superior to anything
heretofore established.
The North Coast Limited will be one
of the handsomest and most complete
passenger trains in the country.a With it
new 7o-foot baggage and express cars,
combination smoker, new tirst-class
coaches, new Pullman tourist sleepers
handsomely upholstered in dark green
leather, thoroughly modern hrst-class
sleepers and elegant dining cars, I'll wide
v%cstibuled, the train might be considered
complete. Its chief attraction, however
will be the thorough lighting of the train
throughout by electricity, including two
berth lights for reading in each section,
and an obscrvation-car more complete
than anything Of the kind heretofore con-
structed. This car, which will be 70 feet
in length, with a wide and handsomely
rallied rear platform, will have IA up
holstered plush chairs, with writing desk
and reading table in the rear end; a care
fully selected library of I25 volumes
bathroom, barber shop and buffet in the
center, while in the rear, in addition to
toilet-rooms for men and women, there
will be two smoking and card rooms,
each. furnished with six comfortable
chairs and a folding table. These smok-
ing or card rooms will be shut off from
the remainder of the car and SO thorough
ly ventilated that those addicted to the
weed may indulge at leisure without at
tracing undue attention.
The Northern Pacific management re-
alize that for short night runs, as for in
stance, between St. Paul and Chicago,
where there is no opportunity to enjoy
the really interesting scenery, a library
car meets the wants of the traveller, but
on a t~ranscontinental journey of 1000
miles or more, where the passenger hopes
to see something of the country through
which he is passing, perhaps for the first
time, they hold that the observation car
is the car par excellence, and that moth.
ing else will take its place. The North
Coast Limited" of the Northern Pacific
will be run exclusively in the interest of
passengers and as a consequence, the
observation car will be kept on the end
Of the train for the benefit of the passen-
gers who have paid their money and to