Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-10-27
THE nSUNSET"
TRAINS ARE
The BEST EVER
WILL CUT TINE BETWEEN SAN
FRANCISCO AND NEW YORK 80
HOURS-CARS BUILT OF STEEL,
AND OF LATEST DESIGN.

Modern travel, already luxurious, is
to be made even more so by the
Southern Pacific Sunset route. Plans
for a new train to run twice weekly
between New Orleans and Los Ange-
les and San Francisco call for cut
of thirty hours in the running time
between the two points. The new
schedule, with its attendant comforts,
has been brought about by the heavy
winter travel between the two points
on the Sunset route. and to care for
this new equipment is now being built
in the Pullman shops at Chicago.
The trains will be all steel. The
cars will be of the latest design and
will contain every comfort now in
use on the fastest and best equipped
trains, and many new cOnysniences
in addition.
Built for High Speed.
The trains will consist of only six
cars, and thus the high speed that
will be demanded to make the sched-
ule may be maintained with compare
tive ease. Each train will carry only
dynamo and baggage car, diner,
three drawing-rOom sleepers and an
observation smoking car. The sleeping
and drawing-room cars will be fin
ished in mahogany and other beau
tiful hardwoods and furnished in lux
urious fashion. The sleeping cars
will each contain ten sections, two
compartments and a drawing room.
They are being built with an especial
regard to the comfort of women, in
that the accommodations for them will
be most commodious, A ladies maid,
manicure and hairdresser will aid in
caring for the needs of the women.
The men also will be well taken
care Of, there being a barber, shower
bath, arrangements for pressing cloth
ing and stenographer aboard
The berths are to be electric lighted
both upper and lower, and electric
fans will cool the air of the car.
The dust and dirt of transconti-
mental travel will be eliminated. as
much as possible by the installation
of vacuum cleaners that will do away
with the offensive brushing up of dirt
in the cars. At all terminals the
trains will be given telephone connec-
tions and travellers will be enabled to
talk with friends in the city without
leaving the cars.
Previous Records to be Broken.
Service on the Sunset Limited
will begin December from New Or.
leans and the following day from Sar
Francisco The trains will leave New
Orleans at 1890 noon Mondays ant
Thursdays of each week and arrive
in Los Angeles at 9:15 D. m. every
Wednesday and Saturday, and in SaT
Francisco at IL a. m. the followinE
days.
On the eastern trip trains will leave
San Francisco at $3.50 p. m. Tuesdays
and Saturdays, Los Angeles at S:3l
a. m. the following days and arrive il
New Orleans at 1920 p. M every Fri
day and Tuesday. The running timt
between Los Angeles and New Orleans
will thus be cut to fifty-six hours an(
fifty minutes and between San Fran
cisco and New Orleans to sevent.
hours and fifty minutes, or less thai
three days for the trip that now take
, more than four.
The luXuries afforded the travele
and the speed attained are such tina
an excess fare of $40 will be charged
between the two terminals.
Connection With Steamships.
The time of the two trains has beel
gauged so that direct and quick con
nection will be made at both ends O
the route with ocean steamships
Travellers from San Francisco boun
for the east and north may take thi
train and be whirled to the Louisian
metropolis and there transfer to fas
trains or steamships of the Southern
Pacific. On the western trip the mai
who is hurrying to catch one of tn
vessels of the Pacific Mail will hav
an additional day for business an
still make his boat.
The service when inaugurated vii
be a unique departure in railroad his
tory The trains will be differen
from any other in the United States
the equipment of the latest and bes
and every care will be taken for tn
safety of passengers
It's tho biggest thing ever attempt
ed by any railroad" said a Souther,
Pacific official, "Of course there ar
extra fare trains butt none like thi.
and no railroad ever before made sue
cut in the running time as we vii
make. And we will do 1t in a fashio
that really will add to the safety @
travel, as our trains will be especial
safeguarded and watched from on
end of the line to the other"
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