Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-01-25
NEW TOURIST CARS
BURLINGTON WILL ADD TO ITS
ALREADY EXTENSIVE PULL
\ MAN SERVICE

A comprehensive system of tourist
car service has been planned by the
passenger department of the Burling-
ton railway to be effective February
15, 1906
In addition to the daily cars now.
running from Chicago to Los Angeles
via the Denver & Rio Grande and San
Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake rail
ways and the personally conducted
Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday
cars running from Chicago to Los An
geles vi@.the Southern Pacific lines.
there will be through cars to San
Francisco every Sunday. Monday
Tuesday, Friday and Saturday in con-
nection with the Denver & Rio
Grande and Southern Pacific railways.
All of these cars, except the personal
ly conducted Tuesday car. will leave
Chicago on train No. 8 at IL p. M.
running via Omaha. Denver. Colorado
Springs and Salt Lake City This
Tuesday car will continue to run via
Kansas City, Denver and Salt Lake
City, leaving Chicago on train No 55
at $40 p. m.
It has also been decided too place
personal conductors on the Los An
geles cars leaving Chicago on Mon
days and Fridays in connection with
the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt
Lake railway. This gives the Bur-
lington personally conducted excur-
sion from Chicago every day except
Saturday and Sunday.
Something entirely new in tourist
car lines will be the daily service from
Chicago to Seattle via the Mississippi
river scenic line and st. Paul in con-
nection with the Great Northern rail-
way. These cars will leave on the
Burlington's Twin City Limited at
$3.50 p. M, arriving at st. Paul at 1920
next morning and leaving on the
Great Northern's Oriental Limited at
1920 a. M, arriving at Seattle at
$3.50 p. M, on the third day after leav-
ing st. Paul
Service from st. Louis will be in
creased also. Tourist cars will leave
the Missouri metropolis every day ex-
cept Wednesday. running to Los An
geles via the Colorado Midland and
San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake
railways. The usual personally con-
Quoted Wednesday car will continue to
run via the Denver G. Rio Grande and
Southern Pacific railways to San Fran
cisco. Departure from ST. Louis will
be on train No. L. at 9:01 p. M, and
cars will run via Kansas City, st. Jo-
seph, Denver, Colorado Springs and
Salt Lake City.
A brand new train from Kansas
City to Seattle via st. Joseph, Lincoln
and Billings will be placed in service
February IL, and designated No ID.
1t will leaye Kansas City at $3.50 a. m.
daily and carry, in addition to through
| tourist cars, standard sleeping cars
and chair cars. This gives double
daily tourist car service to the north
west over Black Hills Custer battle
field, Big Horn basin. Yellowstone
Park line, as train No. Al leaving Kan
sas City at 6:05 p. m. will continue to
carry daily tourist cars to Seattle
| In referring to these numerous i'm
provements, Passenger Traffic Manag-
er Eustis said that travel to the Pa
cific coast, and especially to the Puget
Sound country, had increased tremen-
dously during the past few years, and
the Burlington was determined to
keep its passenger service fully
abreast of the times.
| Mr. Eustis also said that the COM
missary department would be
strengthened shortly by the addition
Of two handsome dining cars, now be-
ing finished at Pullman. They will
be of the largest capacity, seventy
feet in length and will possess as dis
! tinctive features as the eight similar
cars placed in service within the last
year or two. In accordance with the
Burlington's custom the new cars will
| be named for cities on the road and
will be christened Hannibal" and
Peoria"