Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-11
new SERVICE Is ANNOUNCED
Omaha Road Will %Inaugurate Changes in
Operation Of Trains Sunday,
ST. PAUL LIMITED TO USE UNION STATION
Traffic Agreement with Sioux city &
Pacific Gives shorter Line and
Reduces Time TO Minne-
sofa Twin cities.

Official notice is given OF a traffic agree
ment between the Chicago, ST. Paul, Minue-
apolis & Omaha and the Sioux City & Pacific
roads, by which the former line will in
augurate a new plan of operating its pas
seuger trains between Omaha and Minneap-
oils and st. Paul over the Sioux City & Pa
cifc tracks to Sioux City, beginning Sunday,
January II. This also means that the Union
Pacific passenger station will be used by
the Omaha road for it's through trains, in
stead Of the Webster street depot.
For nearly two years the Omaha road has
operated its St. Paul limited over its own
tracks, running to Sioux City, on the Ne
braska side of the Missouri river, via Elmer
son. The agreement entered into with the
Sioux City G. Pacific gives the Omaha road
a shorter line to Sioux City, by means of
the former's direct route to Sioux City on the
Iowa side OF the river, ana will make a per-
ceptible lessening in the time between
Omaha and the twin cities. The distance
over the new route, between Minneapolis
and Omaha, is $50 miles, which is twenty
two miles shorter than the mileage of the
Omaha tracks, via Emerson.
Beginning with Sunday the through st.
Paul limited train viii leave the union
station at 1880 p. M, giving the passenger
for northern points on this line an oppor-
tunity to eat his evening meal at home or
at his hotel instead of in the diner, which
has been necessary heretofore because or
the departure of this train from the Web
ster street depot at 5:55 p. m. This train
under the new schedule will reach st. Paul
the morning after leaving Omaha at 1925
and Minneapolis at s o'clock. The south
bound limited will leave Minneapolis in the
evening at s o'clock, st. Paul at $50, and
reach the Omaha union station at SIS the
next morning. Heretofore this train has
arrived in Omaha at the Webster street
depot at 8 a. m.
This train will continue the same equip
ment which has always made it noted as
one of the finest trains operating into
Omaha. There will be through s~leepers be-
tween Omaha and st. Paul and Minneapo-
lis and between Kansas City, st. Paul and
Minneapolis. The latter connection will be
made by transferring the through Kansas
City sleeper to the Kansas City. st. Joseph
& Council Bluffs trains at Council Bluffs.
A change in the time OF the day train
operating between Omaha and the twin
cities will also be made. The through day
light train which has left the union depot at
5:55 a. m. will, beginning with Sunday,
leave the union station at $50 a. m, arriv-
ing in st. Paul at 7:45 p. m. and Min>
HedpoiiS at c'lp u. H' IuSle Will ne ITO
change in the time of arrival OF this day
train from the north, it being scheduled to
reach Omaha at II p. M, as at present.
officials of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Mis-
souri, Valley traffic and passenger depart,
ments are pleased in a new service which
will also go into effect next Sunday, where
by the time between the Black Hills and
Minneapolis and st. Paul is shortened twelve
hours by means of connections between the
Omaha road at Norfolk junction and the
Elkhorn's Black Hills express. In order to
bring about this connection a train will leave
st. Paul at 7:10 a. m. and Minneapolis at
7:40 a. m, over the Omaha road, passing
Sioux City at 5 pm. and reaching Norfolk
Junction at 7:40 p. M, in time to connect
with the Elkhorn's Black Hills express which
leaves Omaha at 3 D. m.