Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-03-06
THE NEW TRAINS.
A Great Amount Of Work Required to
Stsrt the Puget. Sound Express.

a Great Amount OF Work Required to
Stsrt the Puget Sound Express.
i To get a new passenger train in op-
GRAFTON means more work for arailroad
than the general public understands,
The order for the'new Great North
ern train to and from the coast was
signed only last Saturday night, leav-
ing just week to get ready for the
service. Every department of the
general management of the road was
put to work on the details. Humid
reds Of employees between st. Paul
and the coast were set to w.rk. The
tifty-two travelling and immigration
agents had,to be supplied with liter
ature advertising the new train, for
business depends upon the work of the
travelling agents.
There will be eight fully equipped
trains. st. Paul and Seattle are
2, 600 miles apart, and it takes a train
about sixty hours to run that dis
tance. But a train has to start from
st. Pa at the same hour every day,
so by the time the first train reaches
the coast there will be two other
trains following day apart. "A train
must start from Seattle every day.
and when the first train reaches ST..
Paul there will be two other trains a
day apart between here and Seattle.
That means that there will be six
trains in motion all the time. But a
train cannot be started back on the
2, 600 mile journey as soon as it reach
es one end of the line, so there is one
full train at each end of the line all
the time, being looked. over by car
inspectors, and cleaned by the car
cleaners. All this week the company
has been taking extra cars toward the
coast to have enough equipment at se-
attic for the eastbound trains.
The new trains mean that many
men will be promoted to the passen-
ger runs and full corps of brake
men, and these men are hustling to
have their new uniforms ready. In
the general superintendent's office
clerk. ARE preparing the skeleton Of
| the new time cards; and all along the
line from st. Paul to the coast each
division superintendent is preparing
the details covering the time cards
for his division.
Tho superintendent. of motive
power has been informed that he will
be required to supply eight 0. the big
passenger engines to haul the trains,
and engineers and fremen will have
to be promoted for the new passenger
runs.
The superintendent of dining and
sleeping cars has been arranging for
the eight new palace sleepers, new
tourist sleepers and new dining cars.
Messages and orders have been sent to
the commissionary stores at points
along the line to increase their stocks
SO as to be able to provision the new
trains. It takes two chefs for each
dining car, and three walters, SO there
will be sixteen chefs and twenty four
uniformed walters to appoint.
The Great Norhtern Express com
psny has to provide eight express safes
and corps Of express messengers
There will be extra mail ssrvisce,
but the railway company only has to
supply the equipment. Uncls Sam
will furnish the man.
The keynote Of the service, how
ever, is contained in the message
which one of the company's officials
sent to another yesterday. This was
his message:
No excuse will be accepted. /
know the new schedule is fast, but the
trains must make the time.
The cars have been received from
Barney & Smith. They are Of ex.
treme length and capacity. The day.
coaches have a length over all Of
eighty feet and nine inches. Their
seating capacity is eighty five persons.