The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-06-23
AN INTERESTING TRIP NORTH.
Beautiful Scenery Over Queen & Cres-
cent to Cincinnati.

The New Orleans papers announc
that the Queen & Crescent railway
which runs from New Orleans in a be-
line to Cincinnati, O., is taking steps
to bring before the people OF tn,
south the advantage of Lookou
Mountain above Chattanooga as 6
summer resort. A Like Charles mar
who recently took trip over the road
said the Queen u Cresent's attrac
tons In that regard are not limited tC
Lookout Mountain. and that from
Chattanooga to Lexington, KY, the
railroad is crowded with places that
would be attractive as a place tC
spend the heated term.
The Lake Charles man said: ''The
people of Western Louisiana patron,
lie the Queen & Crescent quite liberal
ly, but If lbs advantages as route tC
the north were thoroughly understood
it would be patrOnized still more
heavily. Its trains make the trip OF
$50 miles from Cincinnati to New
Orleans on twenty.four hour sched.
u!e. They are splendidly equipped,
the Pullman and dining car service is
unexcelled by any route and the
scenic beauties along the line OF the
railroad are not surpassed by any
east OF the Rockies.
Leaving New Orleans there is little
to attract the attention of the traveller
from the south except the trip across
Lake Pontchartrain where the rail
road spans water gapof seven miles
until Birmingham is reached. Birm-
ingham is bussling city, worthy of
the attention OF anybody, and con-
tains many beautiful buildings that
can be seen from the train.
Leaving Birmingham the railroad
winds among the hills OF Alabama
passing Alfalfa and Fort Payne, both
eHterprising and progressive towns.
The hills get higher aud higher until
at Morganville,. Gar they become
veritable mountains. Between here
and Chattanooga the railroad passes
through halloHed ground where the
historic struggles at Chickam&uga
and adjacent battlef1elds were fought
out. Approaching Chattanooga the
railroad skirts the base of Mission
Ridge and Lookout Mountain with
the river on one>side and the noun
tains on the other.
Leaving Chattanooga the train
climbs the Blue Ridge mountains and
enter upon the most picturesque por-
ton of the route. Between Oakdals,
Tenn, and Somerset, KY, it passes
through twenty-four tunnels, crossing
the intervening gorges- by means Of
high bridges. Each passenger train
is drawn by two heavy engines and
every safeguard is thrown about the
passengers. The block system has
been installed throughout this portion
of the route and 50 perfect is its OPP
Grafton and so many are the checks
kept upon it that collisions of all
kinds are practically impossible.
"The eliminating beauty OF the trip
is at High Bridge. KY. The train
passes over Licking river at the dizzy
height Of 280 feet, and for a number of
miles runs along the edge OF gorge
where the traveller can look from the
car window at the river hundreds of
feet below, winding like ribbon OF
silver. The entire trip is full of inter-
est and when the traveller crosses the
big suspension bridge at Cincinnati
he hardly feels that he has made such
a long journey, so comfortable are the
trains and so unsurpassed the seem
cry. Il. G. American.