The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-24
NEW COAST TRAINS.
Details of the New TranscOntinentni
Limited.

Limited.
Charles S. Fee. general passenger agent
Of the Northern Pacific issued an Oficial
announcement yesterday concerning the
North Coast Limited" service, which
goes into effect between ST. Paul ana
Portland on April 29.
The train schedules have not been COM
pleted, but a temporary time card has
been issued which will probably be used
after the change with little modification.
According to this schedule the West
bound trains will leave St. Paul at l0:35
p m, arriving in Portland at p. m
East-bound the limited will leave Port
land at n:30 =. m, arriving in st. Paul
at 1:S5 a. n. in time for passengers from
the West TO make connections for Chi
oago and the East
The new service consists OF ten COM
plete trains. Each is a model Of the
best in the car builders art and for Il
short period each day, nine of these
trains Will be In simultaneous operation
on the system. The tenth is held In re-
serve as extra equipment. Mr.. Fee says
OF the new trains:
These trains will be hauled by ten
wheeled Schenectady engines, weighing,
exclusive of tender, 100000 pounds or
eighty tons. Each engine has six driving
wheels, the diameters OF which are either
BiNty-nine or seventy-three inches, or as
high as tall man, and will carry tho
train nearly twenty feet at each reVolu-
tiOn OF the wheels. The steam pressure
carried is zoo pounds TO the square inch
which viii enable these monsters to pull
the heavy train a a high speed even
eighty miles an hour, If necessary. The
ire box Is nine feet long, six feet high
and five feet wide. The tender will cor,
tain nine tons Of coal and 1850 gallons OF
water when starting on its long journey.
The boiler, at its smallest diameter, is
siXty-tWo iches, and the engine stands
fourteen and a half feet high These
locomotives are of the compound pattern,
whereby the steam, after having been
used in one cylinder, is used the second
time in another cylinder, and the great
est economy of energy IS thus obtained
These engines Will also supply steam for
heating the train and operating the dyno-
mos TO supply electricity for lighting the
ears
Each north coast limited train will have
eight cars, express, baggage, second-class
coach and combination smoker, first-class
coach, tourist sleeping car, dining car,
Pullman standard sleeping car and an
observation car each of which will be
lighted by electricity. The whole train
will be equipped with vestibules steel
platforms, standard cOuplers. air brakes,
air train signals, the Gold system heat
new baggage cars win be seventy feet in
length. and the baggage car will contain
at the front end The electric plant. This
consists OF a steam engine, a twenty-five
kilowstt Westinghouse dynamo, with
complete switchboard apparatus. This
plant will generate an electric current OF
Bee ampereS at q pressure of 125 volts A
siXteen-section tourist sleeping car An
lshed In mahogany, upholstered in dark
Lea dio+ e.
the hTst-class coach.
At the rear end of each train will be
found an observation car seventy feet
In length. These cars Will be entirely
new and finished in mahogany, with Per-
sian brass trimmings throughout; the ex-
terror finish viii be of standard Pullman
color. At the forward entrance Of this
car, along the side OF which runs cor
ridOr forty-two feet in length, Will be
found two smoking and card rooms KS
feet, with folding tables, and six uphol-
stored chairs. These smoking rooms will
be entirely shut off from the remainder
of the car. In the center of the car will
be the barber shop, bath room and buffet
At the end Of the corridor and at the en-
trance to the ladies' parlor will be found
q reading room, writing desk and library
OF Us volumes.
The coach has plate glass windows four
feet wide, thus giving the traveller every
opportunity to see, al his leisure, the
country through which the train is pass
ing. Electric fans for ventilating pur-
poses VIII keep the air Of this car sweet
and pure. The rear platform, surrounded
by a handsome brass railing, will be six
and a half feet long, partially inclosed by
the extended sides of the car and entirely
covered by a dome.
1t Is currently reported, though no Off
Cial confirmation has been secured, that
the Great Northern will put on COM
paniOn coast service to the new accom-
modations purchased by the Northern Pa
cihc Last fall it was stated that Presi-
dent Hill had mapped out plan for the
Encouragement Of train service, giving
faster coast trains and more elegant ac-
commodations. The change in color for
passenger coaches determined in the fail
IS rapidly being carried out. Several new
cars have been recently received. paint
ed the new standard olive green