Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-02
NEW SUNSET TRAINS
FAST AND BEAUTIFUL
Southern Pacific Sunset Route Will
Cut Time Between New Orleans
and San Francisco.

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 Angeles
and San Francisco call for cut of thir-
ty hours i the running time between
the two points. The new schedule, with
its attendant comforts, has been
brought about b" 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 latest design and will con-
tain every comfort now in use on the
fastest and best equipped trains. and
many new conveniences in addition.
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 cOmpar
alive ease. Each train will carry only
dynamo and baggage car. u diner,
three drawing room sleepers and an
observation smoking car. The sleeping
and drawing-roOm cars will be finished
in mahogany and other beautiful hard
woods and furnished in luxurious fash
ion. The sleeping cars will each con-
tain ten sections, two compartments
and a drawing room. They are being
built with an especial regard to the
comfort of women, in that the accom-
modations for them will be most COM
modious. 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 clothing and
stenographer aboard.
The berths are to be electric lighted
both upper and lower. and electric fans
win cool the air of the car.
The dust and dirt of transcontinen-
tai travel will be eliminated as much
as possible by the installation of vacu-
UNI cleaners that will do away with the
offensive brushing up Of dirt in the
cars. At all terminals the trains will
be given telephone connections and
travellers will be enabled to talk with
friends in the city without leaving the
cars.
Service on the Sunset Limited" will
begin December from New Orleans
and the following day from San Fran
cisco. The trains will leave New Or
leans at 1890 noon Mondays and
Thursdays of each week and arrive in
Los Angeles at 9:15 p. m. every
Wednesday and Saturday. and in San
Francisco at II a. m. the following
days.
On the Eastern trip trains will leave
San Francisco at $50 p. m. Tuesdays
and Saturdays. Los Angeles at $50 a
m. the following days and arrive in
New Orleans at 1920 p. m. every Fri
day and Tuesday. The running time
between Los Angeles and New Orleans
will thus be cut to fifty-six hours and
fifty minutes and between San Fran
cisco and New Orleans to seventy
hours and fifty minutes. or less than
three days for the trip that now takes
more than four.
The luXuries afforded the traveller
and the speed attained are such that
an excess of $40 will be charged be
tween the two terminals.
The time of the two trains has been
nection will be made at both ends of
the route with ocean steamships. Trav
elerS from San Francisco bound for
the East and North may take this train
and be Whirled to the Louisiana me-
trOpolis and there transfer to fast
trains or steamships of the Southern
Pacific On the Western trip the man
who is hurrying to catch one OF the
vessels Of the Pacific Mail will have an
additional day for business and still
make his boat.
The service when inaugurated will
be a unique departure in railroad his
tory. The trains will be different from
any other in the United States. the
equipment of the latest and best and
every care will be taken for the safety
of passengers.
It's the biggest thing ever attempt
ed by any railroad" said a Southern
Pacific official. "Of course there are
extra fare trains, but none like these,
and no railroad ever before made such
cut in the running time as We will
make And we will do it in a fashion
that really will add to the safety OF
travel. as our trains viii be especially
safeguarded and watched from one end
of the line To the other"
The Sunset Limited will pass Mari
copa Eastbound approximately at 300
p. IN. and westbeund, enroute to San
Francisco, at $50 A. NJ.