The Dickinson press., 1900-03-31
New N. p. Erain Service.

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 supe-
rior, to the most luxurious trains to be
found on the eastern lines.
The Northern Pacific railway was the
first projected trans-continental line. 1t
has five important eastern terminals
namely, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Ashland,
Superior and Duluth; three western ter
minals-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 the introduction Of dining cars, which
were then and are now carried between
St. Paul, Mimi, and Portland, Ore, On
all Of its trans-continental trains. For
several years the Northern Pacific has
spent enormous sums in shortening its
road, substituting heavy rails for light
ones, revising its grades and curves, wild
cning its entertainments, ballasting its
track, filling in trestlcs, 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.
A new schedule is to go into effect on
this line April 20 next, and this schedule
will make a distinct advance in northwest
ern railroading. Waiting until the full
ness of time had come, until the field was
ripe for the sickle, it had constructed for
it a trans-continental train, or, rather ten
trains, to 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
continued on practically the present time
card, a new train, which will be known as
the North Coast Limited" will be put
into service on the date mentioned.
These trains will be hauled by ten,
wheeled Schenectady engines, weighing,
exclusive of tender, 100000 pounds, OF
eighty tom Each engine has six driving
wheel, the diameters Of which are either
sixty-nine or seventy-three inches, or as
high as a tall man, and will carry the
train nearly twenty feet at each revolu'
ton of the wheels. The steam pressure
carried is 200 pounds to the square inch,
which enables these monsters to pull the
heavy train at a high speed, even eighty
miles an hour, if necessary. The ire-box
or furnace, which supplies the heat thai
generates this great steam pressure is
nine feet long, six feet high and five fee
wide. The tender will contain nine ton:
of coal and 1850 gallons of water wher
starting on its long journey. The boiler
at its smallest diameter, is ~sixty-twt
inches, and the engine stands fourteen
and a half feet high. These locomotive
are on the compound pattern, whereof.
the steam, after having been used in on
cylinder, is used another time in anothe
cylinder, and the expansive or utmos
power Of the steam is thus obtained
These engines will also supply steam 10
heating the train and operating the dyna
mos to supply electricity for lighting tn
cars.
Each North Coast Limited train vii
have eight cars, i. e., express, baggage
second-class coach and combination
smoker, frst-class coach, tourist sleeping
car, dining Car, Pullman standard sleep
ing car, and an observation car, each O
which will be lighted by electricity. Tn
whole train will also be equipped wit
wide %vestibules, steel platforms, M. B. {
standard couplers, Westinghouse al
brakes, Westinghouse air train signal:
the Gold system heat, aad paper wheel
with steel tires. The new baggage an
express cars will be seventy feet in length
and the baggage car will contain at tn
front end the electric plant. This cor
sists of an eight-inch. cylindered stear
engine, a twenty-five Kilowatt Westing
house dynamo with complete switchboar
apparatus. This plant will generate a
e electric current or 900 amperes at a pres:
ure of 125 volts. The smoking cars, c
second-class coaches, are divided by
partition, one-half being used by seconc
class passengers and the remainder use
for a smoking car. The irst-class da
: coach, sixty feet in length, follows tn
smoking car, These coaches are of n
cent manufacture and along the mo-
modern lines, we'll ventilated, roomy, fiji
ished in mahogany. with separate an
comfortable toilet rooms for men an
women. A sixteen section tourist slee]
ing car, finished in mahogany, upho
stored in dark green leather, with ISL
carpeted, follows Immediately after II
frst-class coach, and will prove a sourc
of surprise and delight to those who cal