The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-06-07
BEAUTIFUL Train
DULUTH SOUTH SHORE TRAIN IS
HANDSOMEST IN NORTHWEST.
First Trip Was Made Last Sunday,
Pullman Sleepers Are Discarded
for Modern First-CIass Cars.
Road Is Extremely Popular in
This SectiOn-Cars Are All Illu-
minated by Electricity.

Sunday morning last the Duluth,
South Shore & Atlantic road ran into
Duluth for the first time on it's Boston
Limited schedule one of the most hand
somely equipped trains in the country.
It is brand new and of the latest and
most luxuriant style and accommoda-
ton from the engine to the observation
platform of the rear sleeper. And the
equipment is the property of the rail-
road from pilot to the read signal light
at the rear. The sleepers have been
built expressly for this train and for
the railroad, which has bid goodbye
forever to the Pullman service it has
been having for years.
The same equipment will be run on
each night train, so that passengers
over the "Straight- Away Line will al
be had.
The train is archaeological and
steam-heated throughout. The incan-
descent current for the lights is fur
nished from a direct-connected gen.
orator in the baggage car, and the loco
motive will supply the steam for all
purposes. In architecture the cars are
all of the most modern type, with
bblong stained and loaded glass WIN
dows for ornamental purposes, and very
large square windows in the body of
the cars. The equipment consists of
two first-class sleepers Of the most
modern and richly-a appointed type, a
. first-class coach finished in almost as
costly a style as the sleepers, a second
class coach and a baggage coach, all
painted in the standard South Shore
vermillion, lettered in gold. and of uni
form style from front to back.
All the cars making up the train are
equipped with the Gould wide vesti-
bules and couplers, and Allen paper,
steel-tired wheels, which are the acme
of modern car-building art.
One great beauty of the new sleepers
Is that they are four inches higher
than the standard sleeper, which allows
two inches more head room for both
upper and lower berths. People who
have often cracked their heads in get
ting into their berths will appreciate
this. The sleepers, which were made
by the Barney & Smith company, Day.
ton, Ohio, are equipped with standard
steel platforms and the Barney &
Smith anti-telescoping device, which
make the frame work practically in
destructible in case of accident
The interior architecture is of the
Empire period, but instead of brass,
which was originally employed with it,
the builders have used marquetry or
inlaid work for ornamenting the wood
work. The main room, corridors and
toilet rooms are done in St. Jago ma
hogany, and the state room in prima
vera or white mahogany. The seats
are made with curved ends, an inno-
walton in sleeping car building. The
windows are half elliptical in form
with tapering arches beautifully inlaid
with marquetry and supported by cor
bells. The glass is rich cathedral
heavily loaded. In order not to detra Ct
from the window ornamentation, CELL
Ing decorations have been omitted and
soft green has been substituted Will
ton carpets, frieze plush window shades
and draperies of a. delicate green har-
monte with and complement the shade
of the rich St. Jago mahogany. Each
berth and seat are fitted with read
ing electric light, and the builders claim
the cars are the acme of the modern
Car-building art.
The day coach is, of course, lighted
with electricity, something almost un.