The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-09-09
NEW COACHES
MADE OF STEEL
ON NoRTH-WEsTERN's THROUGH
TRAINS.
ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF
ANNOUNCEMENT is MADE OF Ex.
TENSIvE NEW EQUIPMENT.

The Northwestern railroad, which
has always given Brookings and every
other city on it's line good service,
tensive purchase of new equipment
and motive power, placing it in even
better shape to serve the towns in
it's territory. Orders have been placed
for one-hundred and twenty-five steel,
fire proof coaches, reclining chair cars,
dining cars and baggage cars, and
kths equipment is now under construc-
tion for early delivery.
All of these ears are fully equipped
with non-collapsible, heavily re-inforc-
ed steel frames, with the most mod
ern safety vestibules, Westinghouse
high speed air brake equipment, and
the latest improved draft gear.
The floors are laid with a sanitary
composition that adds strength to the
car and deadens the noise of the
train Even the frames of the seats
are built of steel, and no combustible
HidIelldl eHIeIS lllo any part VI tuc
construction.
The new dining cars will have fea-
lures that are of direct interest to
the public. Each car is arranged to
seat thirty-six people, which is six
more than the usual standard, and
special improvements have been ef-
fected in the arrangement of the kitch-
en- and pantry, which will insure great
er capacity and more prompt service
and at the same time remove all Of
the od0rs from the kitchen.
The day coaches and reclining
chair cars are to be five feet longer
than the largest cars heretofore used
and will, in consequence, have great
er seating capacity. The parlor cars
will be of the most ample dimensions,
and the interior fittings and furnish
ings will be in accordance with the
usual luxurious North Western STAN
dard
Special attention has been given to
the sanitary arrangement Of this
equipment and it will all be fitted
with the latest devices for insuring
cleanliness and satisfactory ventila-
ton.
The Chicago e Northwestern rail-
way will be the first western road to
provide all-steel, safety, fire proof
equipment on all it's through passen-
ger trains.
The announcement is also made that
seventy-five new Pacific Type" loco
motives for use on all through pas
senger trains are now under construc-
ton and will be delivered in the next
two or three months. Their immense
capacity will enable them to haul,
at a high rate Of speed and with the
greatest ease, a loaded train of four
teen standard Pullman sleeping cars.
The country reached by the North
Western is very prosperous; so pros
porous in fact that it is going to re-
Qure skillful handling on the part of
the railway people to take care of
the heavy grain tonnage this fall.
If the situation is fairly met, the rail-
ways must also recognize the purchas-
ing power of the people of the west
and provide means, not only for pas
senger traffic, but for an unprecedent-
ed movement of merchandise and all
other classes of freight.
These conditions have been met by
the management of the Northwestern
in the most liberal way, and in addi-
ton to the passenger equipment above
described they have purchased with
in the past twelve months 5000 freight
cars, modern type and capacity, which
is said will increase the carrying capa-
city of the road per mile fifteen per
cent. The Northwestern policy has
always been such that equipment has
been maintained above the average
capacity, and, while other roads have
about seven cars to the mile, the
Northwestern now has an equipment
of eight cars to each mile of road
tion to the freight car equipment, or
ders have also been placed for fifty
heavy freight engines, each of which
has a hauling capacity of forty per
cent greater than that of the largest
type now in use on the line.
Much attent on has been accorded
by the Northwestern management to
the publics demand for maximum of
safety, precaution and devices and the
liberal policy which has been pursued
In matters of this kind is shown in
Il e extensive amount of automatic
s5tety signal work that has been done
aild in the purchase of new steel, fire
proof passenger equipment that 1t