The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-09-30

trip would be, to repeat what occur
red at every station along the line,
mainly that every stopping place,
crowds were at the station TO get
glimpse Of the million dollar train
! No delays occurred and the train
arrived in st. Louis exactly on time.
| Besides the Texas officials who were
; on the train several officials from
the ST. Louis offices were at the
station to give the new train well
come.
| Randolph Daniels, whose genial
lily knows no bounds, was in charge
I of the newspaper men during the
Ientire trip and he left nothing I'M
done that would add to their COM
: fort or convenience.
| After debarking from the train in
/ ST Louis the party went TO the Mar
auette hotel, where Col. f. P. Hol-
land was host at an elaborate ban
jquet. Mr. Holland had as his guests
! the newspaper boys, Randolph Dan
! ieIs and some of the Katy officials
who reside in St. Louis.
/ Following the banquet the Texas
scribes We're the guests of Mr. Dan
els in box party at the Columbia
theatre.
! This ended the round of pleasure
and the next day the party broke up,
some to return to their posts of du-
ty and others remained over few
days to transact business,
The officials expressed themselves
as being well pleased with the new
service, and there is every reason
to believe it will be success and
that it will become popular with
the travelling public.
The equipment on The Katy
Limited consists of sixteen 10
wheel locomotives, built by the Am
erican Locomotive Co., Schenectady,
N. Y, at a cost of $4,000 each. The
passenger equipment was built by
THE American Car d Foundry Co,
st. Charles. Mo. There are seven TO
foot, steel underframe baggage cars,
costing $1,000 each. Two combina-
ton coach and baggage cars are
used. each costing $4,000. Ten
brand new coaches are used each
lcosting 10000, and ten chair cars
at $4,000 each. A cafe car built at
the NJ, X & T. shops, SedaIia, Mo,
at an outlay of 5000. The above
makes a total cost of equipment of
$55s,O00.
The Pullman observation cars
are Ben Dearg, Ben Macdhui, Ben
LAYERS and Ben Venus. The draw.
ling room cars consist of ten in
number and are known as the Ma
drine, Marmaid, Narada, Nirviana,
Roamer, Randolph, Satellite, Tam
lerlane, Tecumseh and kalita. They
are of the standard II section type.
The average cost of the sleepers is
$4,000 each, making a total cost
of the sleeping car equipment $780,
1000.
The total amount of investment
for the four trains is $95S,000.
The baggage, coach and chair car
equipment represents the very high
est type of modern construction
Isteel underframes, heavy REINFORCED
steel ends; solid steel trucks
Throughout, with steel. tired wheels.
Chair cars have a seating capaci-
jty of So people, 80 chairs and six
seats in the smoking room. The
lightin is with seven single mantle
Pintsch gas center lamps, two brack-
ct lamps and two double flame
Pintsch gas vestibule lamps. The
heating is steam direct from the en-
CINE, in connection with one double
coil Baker heater. There are three
toilet rooms in each chair car. One
washstand in the ladies toilet.
lP1ntsch gas is furnished from two
gas receivers under the GER. west
Iinghouse high speed automatic
air brakes are used.
Combination cars have seating
capacity of 48 people, with 3O-foot
compartment for baggage.
The coaches are II feet over buff
lfers; 10 feet over end sills; seating
lcapacity of "a people; wide vesti-