The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-25
ANOTHER BIG PLAN
GULF TO THE ROCKIES PASSEN-
GER TRAIN THROUGH WAX
AHACHIE ASSURED.
PLANNED BY YOAkUh
Trinity and Brazos Valley, Rock Is
land, Fort Worth and Denver
and Colorado and South
ern Included.
BY YOAkuh

What has long been dream Of
Colonel B. F. Yoakum, namely,
through passenger service from Gal
weston, the commanding port of the
Gulf of Mexico, to Denver, the mec-
ca of western tourists, will, it is be-
lieved, be developed into an actuali-
ty within sixty days at the very out
side by two subtle Yoakum generals,
w. E. Green and D. B. Keeler,
This train service, as indicated by
the events of the past ten days, will
originate in Galveston. From Gal
weston the train will traverse the
Trinity and Brazos Valley to Dallas,
and at the latter point will pass over
into the territory of another Yoak-
um property the Rock Island. The
tracks of the latter will be toured
as far as Fort Worth. There the
Fort Worth and Denver will receive
the train and carry it through the
Panhandle and deliver it to the Col
orado and Southern line at Texline.
Thence, the trip to Denver will be
unbroken.
1t is obvious that the passenger
departments of the Trinity and Bra
zos Valley, Rock Island, Fort Worth
and Denver and Colorado and Sou
/ thern desire to include Dallas and
| Waxahachie on the route on account
! of the great amount of tourist traf-
| fic that Comes out of these cities.
! Indications now are that this SER
vice viii be inaugursted within six
ty days, or just as soon as proper
| schedules can be made out and ad-
vertised, For the first few weeks,
! perhaps, only a sleeper and day
coach will be carried from Calves
ton to Denver, but when the sum-
mer tourist season opens up this will
be increased to a full train, hand
somely appointed and superbly
/ equipped This gulf to the rockies
train will eventually rival the great
overland limited. the Twentieth Cen
tury of the Lake Shore or the
Knickerbocker Special of the Big
Four.
1t will be remembered that the
! Trinity and Brazos Valley has been
putting forth great exertions within
the past few months to place the
! track in perfect condition, and that
next Sunday through day service will
be put into effect by the passenger
department 1t is also clear that the
recent conferences in Fort Worth be-
tween Vice President and General
Manager w. E. Green and General
Passenger Agent Harry P. Bronson,
of the Trinity and Brazos Valley on
the one hand and Vice President
Keeler and General Passenger Agent
A. A. Glisson on the other had to do
with an important matter in the
passenger service. Mr.. Glisson also
recently paid visit to Houston, and
Mr. Keeler has just returned from
Denver, where he met V-Pres. Park
er of the Colorado and Southern.
The service from Galveston
through Waxahachie and Dallas to
Denver would make strong bid
for the summer tourist business
during the hot months and in the
winter would probably be the great
highway OF travel from the North
west to the South and Southeast.
1t is further expected that this
train over the Yoakum lines will be
selected by the southern delegations
to the Denver convention in July.
This train will pass over what is
called the short line mileage be-
tween Denver and Galveston. The
route, as will be seen by reference
to the map, is almost as straight as
the proverbial crow flies, and is many
miles shorter than any other line be-
tween these two points. The exact
distance Is 1.125 miles. divided as
follows: Galveston TO Fort Worth,
322 miles. and Fort Worth to Den
YER. sos miles. The time required to
complete this journey would be
about two days and two nights.