Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-01
THEY'RE TIE FINEST
Northwestern's New Overland
Limited Trains Placed Into
Service Today.
Entire Equipment New and the
Most Modern Appliances
In Use.
Electric Lighted. Steam Heated
and Equipped With Tele.
phone Systems.

limited trains on the Northwestern,
running thru from New York to San
Francisco, passed thru MarshalltoWn
this morning at 3:13 o'clock, on sched-
ule time. These trails, will De
known as Nos. l and 2, and No. 2 Will
be the east bound train. Its time thru
Marshalltown will be 1855 a. M.
These trains will be the present Nos.
1 and 2, but will be entirely different
trains. as the equipment is new thru
out. One train leaves Chicago and one
San Francisco every day. 1t is asserted
that they will be the finest trains cross
ing the continent. All the cars In them
were made especially to the order OF
the Union Pacific, which owns them.
Telephone service on the train at ter
ininals will be a feature. Everything
will be electric lighted, and each train
will carry its own skilled electrician,
whose sole duties will be to care for the
different features Of his department on
that train. One entire car on each train
will be reserved for the electrical ap-
pliances and dynamos. The total equip
ment will be: Dynamo car, mail car,
baggage car, composite car, dining car
Portland sleeper, San francisco sleep
er and San Francisco observation car.
The composite car is buffet, smoking
and library car, with barber shop and
bath auxiliaries. The sleeping cars are
all fourteen-section. with single
drawing room. The observation is a
new type, the apartment observation
car. There is in each car one draw
ing room, six state rooms and one op-
servation room at the rear.
While seated in the first train several
residents of Chicago conversed by tele-
phone with the occupants of Broad
way office in New York City. From the
observation car Of the train w. Is.
Kniskern, the general passenger agent
of the road, in company with several
officials, talked with Henry A. Gross.
the roads general eastern agent, and
with a number of reporters for New
York newspapers.
The overland limited Is declared to
be the fastest long distance train In the
world. The company has just built an
entire new equipment for the train at
cost of 100000. The company has
exceeded the many other fine trains
which traverse the country In supply
ing it's observation car with a tele-
phone. $50
The telephone installment in the car
is connected with the central office at
whatever district or city the train is In
by means OF a cable attached to tri-
pod in the roof of the car. The train
schedules being known, the telephone
companies will detail an operator to at
tend it's calls on time at all stations.
and as soon as the train stops at sta
ton the cable with which the station
is equipped will be connected at the
tripod on the car roof by station at
tendant and the operator in the car will
be instantly in communication with the
local central"
At the terminals, Chicago and San
Francisco, the train will be in readiness
for passengers forty-five minutes be-
fore leaving time, and the idea is tn
give persons who have forgotten things
which they wished to do, or had left
uliooliC, ASoAAAS IiiSy might 4AOt IcdSH
the train in time If any more pauses
were made, ample opportunity to set
tie themselves for their journey, and
then transact from the observation
car any further business which the
telephone will enable them to do.
En- route, messages may be sent from
one station to friends or business as
sociates to call up the train at the
next station. On these long trans
continental journeys the stops at some
important points are much longer than
the usual stops on local or short runs.
1t is the company's intention to ex-
tend the service and establish tele-
phoneic connections thruout the train,
SO that q passenger in compartment
may communicate with the library.
buffet, or smoking car without leaving
his room, just as in modern hotels
and the newest steamships, where the
telephone is bedside companion.