Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-03-05
A Through Train
Oregon Short Line Will
Put on Fast Train
About May lst

The Orgon Short Line is to put on
an extra train each way, ecery day,
clear through from Chicago to the
coast, about the first of May, ac-
cording to the report given to the
Journal by one of the best posted
railroad men on the system
This is to be the fastest train
crossing the continent. 1t will be
probably not to exceed seven cars,
unless the through business is heavy
enough to max it necessary to in
crease its length. While nothing de-
finite is as yet put out concerning
its equipment, it will probably be
one through mail car, one baggage
car, diner, and the rest will be Pull
mans, with an observation car on the
rear. The train will be electrically
lighted, there bing a dynamo in the
front end of the mail car, to be run
from the exhaust steam from the
fastest train. on the road, and will
take precedence of everything else.
This will be the regular Nos. l and
2 the new local trains being II and
IL. All three trains each way daily
will be through trains, and not to be
confused with the Salt Lake-Hunt-
;ington special that was put on last
summer. The Montpelier-McCam-l |
mon local Will probably also be dis
continued, as will other similar
short run trains on the line, to give |
the through trains the full traffic. !
Nos. l and will stop only at juno
ton and other important points, and |
no passes will be recognized, not even !
for important railroad officials; it
being solely for the travel
Atlantic Type.
The present 1900" class of Atlantic I
type engines will probably be used |
on the fast trains. They are used +
almost exclusively on the passenger
trains now, but with the heavy trainc
10 and Is cars, have been put to
carthorse duty instead of the grey
hound running they were built to do.
With the heavy trains, they have been
able to maintain a remarkably eff.
cient schedule, considering the long
runs and the heavy roads they have
to cover: but with trains of only 6
to 8 cars, they should fairly burn
up the roads, and make an almost
inyariable schedule. To apportion
the present business among the
three trains instead of two day, will
mean to shorten all the trains and
allow of better time and closer run
ming. The 1000" class of six-driver
engines. a number of which are own
ed by the Short Line, are being oy-
and put in order for the
regular passenger runs. They are
not nearly so heavy as the magni-
ficent "SOO's" but with light trains
would make the best of time.
The Short Line is preparing to
!. simple the 1900" compound that
have been used in some yards for
the road They are all freight en-
eines of the heaviest type, and were
put on with the thought that they
would be the engine par excellence
fer a heavy road. But the extraor-
dinary heavy moving parts, with the
two cylinders and the one heavy
cross-head moving together, have so
racked the engines that they are
the plague of the engineers lives.
They have cost more in repairs
than other engines, and have been
little if any more economical in op-
Grafton, say the engineers. Their
great power, however, has kept
few of them in use, on the King Hill
and Medbury grades, but most of
them have been drawn from cir
culation. They are to be reduced TO
simple or single-cylinder engines as
fast as the work can be done.