The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-19
SANTA FE CHANGES.
Installation of New Train Causes
Time Gard Revision.

Important changes have been de-
cided upon for the Improvement of the
Santa Fee service. On account of the
installation of the new California train
which will be known as train No. 8,
from Chicago to Kansas City and
California, a number of other changes
have been made necessary, effective on
December %.
The California traffic has been I'M
usually heavy this year, and the added
coaches to the three regular Santa Fe
California trains to handle the extra
traffic have been so burdensome that
frequently it has been difficult to
make running time with the extra
number of coaches. For this reason
the new train has been decided upon
1t will leave Chicago at $40 every
morning. after receiving passengers
from fourteen incoming trains from
the east. south and north which arrive
at different times from to o'clock
in the morning. Heretofore paSsen-
gers reaching Chicago from other rail-
roads early in the morning have had
to wait all day for trains to California
over the Santa Fe. The new train
will give such persons almost imne-
date connections.
The same condition prevails at Kan
sas City. Twenty trains reach Kansas
City from all directions during the
late afternoon and evening.
Persons coming into Kansas City on
any of these trains who wish to go to
California over the Santa Fe have had
to wait until the next day in the FORE
noon. With the service afforded by
the new train these people may get
out of Kansas City the same evening,
and in addition they will have the
benefit of the fast service.
This train will reach Kansas City at
$3.50, making the running time be-
tween Chicago and Kansas City eleven
hours and fifty minutes. Leaving
Kansas City at $40 the train will
roo aI1 Of III lnox
at 1920 o'clock in the evening. The
running time from Kansas City to To-
peka will be one hour and thirty-five
minutes including stop at Lawrence.
Train No. LOT from ST. Joseph will
be changed so that it will leave st. Joe
at o'clock in the evening instead of
at Sis as at present in order that it
may reach Topeka at 10 o'clock to
make connection with the new west
bound train and thereby give peo-
pie of Atchison and ST. Joseph and in
termediate points as well as from
points in Iowa and Nebraska the ad-
vantage of the new service.
At Newton this train will receive
passengers from the Texas lines. At
La Junta the new train will receive
passengers from Denver, Colorado
points to California, arriving at Los
Angeles at $50 o'clock in the morn
ing of the second day out from Chi
cago.
No. 27 at Albuquerque which will give
the Santa F'e shorter time from Chi
cago to Ell Paso than the Rock Island
and practically the same running time
from Kansas City and Topeka to Ell
Paso, arriving at Ell Paso at $40 at
night, making a total of SO hours from
Chicago to FL Paso.
Eastbound a new train to be known
as No. 10 will leave Ell Paso every
evening at 9:15 o'clock, reaching
Albuquerque, n. NJ, at 1880 O'Clock
the next morning, where it will pick
up equipment from train No. east
bound from California and the extra
equipment of train No. westbound
which will be dropped at Albuquerque.
The chair cars and smoking car of
the new westbound train will only go
as far west as Albuquerque, where the
eastbound No. 10 will pick them up to
return them east. The new westbound
train will be a solid Pullman and ex-
press train west of Albuquerque.
No 10 eastbound will reach Kansas
City via the Emporia cutoff at 5
o'clock in the afternoon, where it will
stop. A new train which will run
from Kansas City to Chicago under
the same train number will leave Kan
sas City every evening at o'clock,
made up of an observation, pariOr and
standard sleeping cars, and other
equipment which will be a fast night
train to Chicago. reaching the latter
place at 1850 o'clock in the morning.
No. 10 will leave Kansas City every
night at O'Clock regardless of wheth-