River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04
THE ROAD OF ANTHRACITE
Popular Because of It's Superb Serv-
ice.
NO RAILROAD IN THE WORLD


offers to the traveller a more picturesque
route than the Lackawanna Railroad.
Leaving New York the train crosses the
far-famed Jersey meadows into the high
lands Of New Jersey. Skirting the Della
ware River the journey lies directly through
the Delaware Water Gap, one of the most
noted scenic views in the world. Thence
to the summit of the Pocono Mountains,
1000 feet above the level of the sea, the
train rushes into Scranton, beyond which
another mountain range is passed before
Binghamton is reached. Here the road
skirts the beautiful Susquehanna River,
running from there into the valley OF the
Chemung River and then into that OF
the Genesee. The entire journey lies
through a continuous panorama OF RIP
pling brooks, leaping cataracts, towering
mountains and hill-shadowed lakes, which
for diversity of interest and beauty OF
landscape is not equaled anywhere on the
American continent.
HUMAN INGENUITY
can do no more for the protection OF
trains than is furnished by the signal sys-
tenn in operation upon the Lac5awanna
Railroad. Brightly painted semaphores by
day and colored lights by night. tiash III their
warning to the swift-flylng trains. these
signals divide the line into blocks, and no
train is permitted to enter them until
preceding trains have passed out OF way.
Where diverging tracks are met, system
of interlocking switches makes the danger
of accident impossible. Crossings, grades
and curves are protected by the most
modern equipment for the safety OF Trains
If for any reason this wonderful mechan-
ism fails to work, signals are automatically
set at danger" and not wheel moves
until the trouble is ascertalned.
HARD COAL is USED
exclusively on all passenger trains OF the
Lackawanna Railroad. This is OF peculiar
interest to the traveller over its llnel Tor
the 400 miles Of beauty lying between New
York and Buffalo may be viewed through
open windows, without danger from lying
cinders or annoying smoke. The, roadped1
being rock-ballasted, there IS no dust s,t anu
the comforts of the journey are turther
assured by superb Pullman cars and high
backed airy coaches.
'toRDER WHAT YOU WANT;
nav only for what you order" is the apt
phrase which describes the dining-car sys-
tenn en- the Lackawanna Railroad; Meals
are la carte, which meaus that the trav-
eler who does not care to order an elabo-
rate lepast may make individual selection
from the menu. The cars are stocked with
the choicest things great mar market liz, illLe
cream eggs and similar articles are Sc
erred fresh every day from the vast da'r
and agricultural region through whlcf
road runs. All through trains carry
ing-cars, whose management is under
direct control Of the company.
ANY RAILROAD AGENT
viii be glad to give further informt
in regard to the Lackawanna serN
which embraces three through trains lea
ING Chicago at 1926 A. M. CARRYING a.
New York $3.50 p. M; 2:30 P. M. (arriyy-
ing New York 7:20 p. M; and 9:l5 Z. M;
(arriving New York 6:15 p. M, and tuli
particulars will be cheerfully. furnished
upon application to George A.. Cullen Cen
eral Western Passenger Agent, lOl Adams
street, Chicago