The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-05-20
More Trains And Faster Time On
The Burlington.

Perhaps the most radical changes in
the way of improvement ever made in
the train service of any railroad at one
time are those which take place on the
Burlington Route May %, when that
company will put on four new trains
and will improve the service and
quicken the time of several existing
trains.
Perhaps the most important of the
new trains are the two which will run
through solid from Chicago to Seattle,
via of st. Paul. They will both be COM
pletely electric lighted, and the Orien-
tai Limited will run over the Great
Northern west of st. Paul, leaving Chi
cago in the evening, and making the
trip in Y hours; it will carry observa-
tion-library-clu car, standard and
tourist sleepers, coaches, dining cars,
etc. The other through train via ST.
Paul will run over the Northern Pacific
road, leaving Chicago in the morning,
and will be known as the Northern Pa
cific Express, and will carry similar
equipment.
1t is worthy of note that this is the
first time that trains have been run
regularly over any railroad all the way
through solid from Chicago to the Puget
Sound region.
In addition, third train to Seattle
will be installed, which will start at ST..
Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and Denver
and run through solid to Seattle over
the Burlington Route to Billings, Mont,
thence over the newly completed line
of the Great Northern through Great
Falls and Spokane-one of the most
interesting and picturesque routes
through the northwest.
In addition to these three new trains
to Seattle, the present through train
running from st. Louis, Kansas City,
Omaha and Denver via Billings and the
Northern Pacific, will be made solid
archaeological train.
With these changes, the people of all
the important cities of the middle west
will have through trains to Puget
Sound twice day, a very important
public convenience in view of the Alas
ka-Yukon-Pacific Exposition to be held
this year in the city of Seattle.
Another new train is the Colorado
Limited, which will be installed between
Chicago and Denver, leaving Chicago at
9:45 in the morning and arriving at
Denver at 4:15 the following afternoon.
This is also completely electric-light-
ed limited train with the usual modern
equipment observation car, standard
sleeper, diner, etc.
The time of the Burlingtons crack
train, the Famous Denver Limited No.
1, will be changed so that after May %
| it will leave Chicago at 1880 p. M, and
arrive in Denver p. m. the following
night. This train has the unusual
record of having arrived on time in
Denver during the calendar year 1908,
555 mes-only late ten times during
the year.
Another important feature is the
fact that the st. Louis Colorado Limited
leaving st. Louis at 2:15 p. m. will be q
solid archaeological train with obser-
walton car, ETC., and will arrive at Den
yer at 4:15 p. m. instead of $40, az here
tofore.
The western roads are this year look
ing for very heavy travel to the
Pacific Coast on account of the Alaska
Youkon- Pacific Exposition to be held ct
Seattle; a greatly increased regular
travel is also looked fer to the Yellow
stone Park and Colorado, and with all
these improvements in train service or
the Burlington, that road should come
in for large share of the new business