The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-06
New ''Sunset'' Trains
 Fast And Beautiful
Southern Pacific-Sunset Route Will Cut Time Between New Orleans and San Francisco Thirty Hours and Connect with Steamships.
CARS BEING BUILT OF STEEL
 AND OF THE LATEST DESIGN
Excess Fare of $1O Will Be Charged
 for Extra Comforts and Speed

Modern travel already luxurious. is to be made even more so by the South ern Pacific, Sunset route Plans for new train to run twice weekly be- tween New Orleans and Los Angeles and San Francisco call for a cut of thirty hours in the running time be- tween the two points. The new sched- ule, with it's attendant comforts. has been brought about by the heavy win ter 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 contain every comfort now in use on the fastest and best equipped trains, and many new cOnveniences in addi- tion.p
 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 compara- tive ease, Each train will carry only a dynamo and baggage car, diner, three drawing room sleepers and an observation smoking car. The sleep ing and drawing room cars will be finished in mahogany and other beau
 
 urious fashion. The sleeping cars will each contain ten sections. two com partments and a drawing room. They are being built with an especial re- gard to the comfort of women, in that accommodations for them will be most commodious. A ladies' maid, mani cure and hairdresser will aid in car- ing for the needs of the women. The men also will be well taken care of there being barber, shower bath, arrangements for pressing cloth ing and stenographer aboard.
 The berths are to be electric light ed both upper and lower, and electric fans will 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 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 with out leaving the cars.
 PREVIOUS RECORD
 TO BE BROKEN
 Service on the Sunset Lmited'' will begin Dec 4 from New Orleans cisco. The trains will leave New Or leans at 12:30 noon Mondays and Thursday of each week and arrive in Los Angeles at 9:15 p. m. every We'd nesday and Saturday and in San Fran cisco at II a. m. the following days.
 On the Eastern trip trains will leave San Francisco at 6:S0 p. m. Tuesdays and Saturdays Los Angeles at s:sO a. m. the following days and arrive in New Orleans at 7:20 D. m. every Friday and Tuesday. The running time between Los Angeles and New Orleans will thus be cut to f1fty-six hours and fifty minutes and between San Francisco and New Orleans to seventy hours and fifty minutes or less than three days for the trip that now takes more than four.
 The 1uxuries afforded the traveller and the speed attained are such that an excess fare of $10 will be charged between the two terminals.
 CONNECTION WITH STEAMSHIPS
 The time of the two trains has been gauged so that direct and quick con- nection will be made at both ends of the route with ocean steamships. Travellers from San Francisco bound for the East and North may take this train and be whirled to the Liusiana and there transfer to fast trains or steamships of the Southern Uacific. 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-I 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 tI1eN 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 a cut in the running time as we win make And we will do it in a fashion that really will add to the safety of travel, as our trains will be especially safe guarded and watched from one. end of the line to the other"