The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-06
Hartman Interests Preparing
Northwest Through Service.
New Train Will Be Run From
st. Louis to Pacific Coast.
PASSTHROUGHTOPEKA
Will Give City a Direct Line to
Portland on Union Pacific.
Other Items OF Interest in Rail-
way Circles.

One of the biggest undertakings in the
line of through service is about to be
launched by the Hartman interests.
Topeka will be benefited by the service
for 1T will bring one more train through
the city, fast through train on the
Union Pacific, and will give Topeka a
through train to the Northwest on
which passengers can ride without
change of cars.
The train will be established April 4,
and will make a through service from
ST. Louis to Denver, San Francisco.
Los Angeles, and Portland and the
Northwest. Topeka will also benefit to
the extent of an additional train each
way.
New equipment, of the best modern
type, consisting of all steel sleeping
and chair cars. electric lighted and
steam heated, is being built. Twenty
new coaches will go into commission on
the new route, and the train will be in
every respect of a character to accord
with the Importance of the innovation.
The route will. in the opinion of OPP
Grating and traffic officials be the short
est in existence from st. Louis to San
Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland.
AS the roadbed and rails are in superb
condition, they feel that the service will
assure, from StandpointS of safety,
comfort and speed, general excellence.
The Trains Schedule.
TRAINS VIII leave st. Louis and the
three centerS on the Pacific coast daily.
The departing time from ST. Louis will
be 2:30 O'Clock in the afternoon. Passen-
gers VIII arrive in Kansas City at $3.50
o'clock the same night, at Topeka at
1920 p. M, at Denver at $40 o'clock
the next afternoon, and at San Fran
cisco. Los Angeles and Portland at 8
o'clock in the evening of the third day.
The trains will leave San Francisco and
Los Angeles at 10 O'Clock in the morn
ing and Portland at 8 o'clock in the
morning, reaching Topeka at 9:1O a. M,
arriving at st. Louis at o'clock in
the afternoon of the third day.
No change from one train to another
will be made at any point en- route. First
class sleeping car passengers, entering
the train at st. Louis, will not be oblig-
ed to get off until they reach their des-
tinations, whether they are going to
Denver, Portland, Los Angeles or San
Francisco.
No Change of Cars.
The train leaving st. Louis daily,
which will comprise three coaches, will
run solid to Denver. one standard sleep
ing car going through to Los Angeles.
Between Denver and Green River, pas
sengers for San Francisco will move
from one car into another, without
leaving the train, and between Denver
and Granger, passengers for Portland
will move from one car into another,
without leaving the train. In this way
the service will be through, literally,
as travellers Will not deDarK at any
junction between the Mississippi river
and the Pacific coast.
The final achievement of daily
through service from st. Louis to San
Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland is
the result of a traffic arrangement be-
tween the Wabash and the Union Pa
cific.
The route is practically the same as
that of the Overland Limited and the
Los Angeles Limited; in fact, passen-
gers using this train from St Louis
will be afforded all the conveniences of
those limited trains from Cheyenne,
Wyo., west.
Route of New Service.
From ST. Louis to Kansas City, the |
tracks of the Wabash will be used |
from Kansas City through Topeka and
to Ogden. the track of the Union Pa
cific; from ogden to Salt Lake, the |
tracks of the Oregon Short Line; from |
Green River to Portland. the tracks of
the Oregon Short Line and the Oregon
Railroad & Navigation company; from |
Ogden, Utah. to San Francisco, the |
tracks of the Southern Pacific, and |
from Salt Lake to Los Angeles, the |
tracks of the San Pedro, Los, Angeles |
& Salt Lake
Extraordinary significance is attached
to the plan because a new gateway to |
the west and to the Northwest will be |
opened for travellers from the south and |
the east. Heretofore a considerable per- |
of the traffic has moved through |
even from points of origin in |
the southeast, because through trains |
have been operated from that gateway |
and only through cars from st. Louis. |
FOR NEW EQUIPMENT.
New York Central Will Expend Eight
Million Dollars.
New York, March 6.-President w. |
c. Brown of the New York central