The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-10
st. Louis Colorado Limited Train
Starts ON Union Pacific.
First Run Through Topeka Is
Made at :O5 This Morning.
MODERN
Equipment Is New Throughout
and Has Every Luxury.
Other Items of Interest in
Railway Circles.


] train, which the Union Pacific has
been boosting for some time became a
reality Sunday, starting from st.
Louis in the afternoon and passing
through Topeka promptly on schedule
time at 1905 this morning The train
runs between St Louis and Kansas
City over the Wabash and from Kan
sas City west over the tracks of. the
Union Pacific and its branch lines to
Los Angeles, San Francisco and the
northwest. 1t is undoubtedly the fin
est train in the west and the service
given Is everything that was claimed
for it.
A large number of Union Pacific Of
ficials and newspaper men met the
train at Kansas City and accompanied
it on it's westward journey. The train
pulled by a mammoth Wabash engine
pulled into the Kansas City union de-
pot promptly at 9:55 last night, right
on time to the second The superb
equipment of the train showed to adj
vantage among the other trains at the
union depot. The train stops in Kan
sas City for an hour and twenty
minutes for re-icing and many other
incidentaIs connected with through
| service.
At 11:15 the train left the Union
station. There were forty-eigh pas
sengers aboard at this time, seventeen
Of whom were bound for the Pacific
coast, not a bad record for the first
run. From Kansas City the new train
was pulled by engine No. l, the finest
OF the Union Pacifc's new Atlantic
type Of engines.
The equipment of the train last
night and for the present at least is
composed of one tWelve-section draw
ing room Pullman, one ten section
o observation Pullman, one chair car, a
dining car and a baggage car. The
equipment is fire proof and the inter-
ior Of each car is finished in mahog-
any The equipment is all new, and
probably a million dollars was spent
in getting this train ready for service:
The train is electrically lighted
throughout. large Curtis TURBINE
dynamo which is located IN the baggage
car generates a current of 125 volts, and
provides all the electricity for lighting
the train The dynamo is run by steam
furnished from the engine. This IS
considered much superior to the axle
lighting method. The dynamo is run
nv the baggagemen. who have been Civ
en- special course in the operation
of dynamos, expressly for service on
these trains.
an electric light of eight candle power
The ladies dressing rooms in the or
ferent Pullmans are the finest ever
! seen in railroad travel. The laVatorles
on the train are new and among other
( features have a dental IdNdlOIy dOQCO
! to the regular accessories.
! The observation cars are models of
beauty. They are larger than those on
other roads and embody all the latest
features which make travel easy. In
| the rear end of the observation cars
| is worked an electric sign with the
name of the train.
In all II new steel cars have been
built expressly for this train. Nine OF
them are II section drawing room
ton .E1cG
platform sleepers, and four are steel
The first run of the train through
Kansas was in charge of Conductor
Arthur WATSON Engineer Emmett
Lewis was at the throttle on the big
No. l engine while j. NJ. McLain fired
the engine, and Joe Acton acted as
electrician and baggage agent
THE train will be a great one for you
Topeka people, said H. G. Kali, assist
ant general passenger agent of the I'm
! ion Pacific, to a State Journal repre-
( sentative who accompanied the train on
its first trip 1T will leave Kansas
| City at a time when you can attend
/ the theaters, and that is a service thaI
! topeka has needed for some time. And
YOU can put 1t down in black and white
that the train will always be on time.
The schedule is arranged to give plenty
of running time between stations, and
ANYTIME the train is a little bit late,
the carpet to answer for it.
4 The initial trip was accompanied
/ by number of Union Pacific officials
among them being: E. E. LOmax, gen
( eral passenger agent at Omaha; H. u.
Kaill, assistant general passenger
agent at Kansas City; e. n. Owens.
! general agent OF the Wabash at st.
Louis; J. G.. Lowe, general agent tor
! the Hartman lines at st. Louis; E. r.
| futile, travelling passenger agent OF
! the Union Pacific at St. Louis; H. K.
| PrOudfit travelling passenger agent OF
! the Union Pacific at Kansas City; L.
NJ Carney, travelling passenger agent
of the Union Pacific at Topeka; NJ G.
| Gardner, passenger agent of the IN
| ion Pacific, Topeka; c. H. Miller, was
! in charge of the first diner taken
] through to the coast and John j.
I Newcum was Pullman conductor of
/ the train. Hal Gaylord, general man
I ager of the Kansas City Journal, took
! the train at Kansas City for Denver.
/ Other Changes in Time Card
Il The inauguration of this new ser
\ vice will mean other changes in the
L local time card. The new St. Louis
/ Colorado limited will be officially
known as train No. 101, westbound,
n and No 1922 eastbound. No. 1O1 will
\ reach Topeka at los a. m. while the
return train No. 102 will reach Topeka
at $40 a. m.
The Overland Limited trains which
II have been known as Nos 101 and 1O2.
u will hereafter be known as Nos. 1OS
and 10 No 100 will pass through
| o. m. while No. 10 will leave for the
east at 9:45 a. m. This will give To-
peka a train to Lawrence and Kansas
/ City in the loren oon,- service which
has heretofore been lacking.
rOpU cr,oUvr MAY CEvUS DATyENT