Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-08
NEW TRAINS ARE LINED UP
Fast Through Trains for Milwaukee
and the Northwestern.
EQUIPMENT ENTIRELY STEEL
Mflwsukee VIII Have Through
service to Portland, Something
II Has Has Not Hereto
fore Had.

Passenger Traffic Manager Fort Of the
Union Pacific. now in Chicago. yester-
day wired to headquarters the lineup Of
the new passenger service this is to so on
to the Overland system. the Northwestern
and the Milwaukee May Is. With the
exception Of some Of the minor details, It
is the same as announced in The Bee
Tuesday and again Wednesday.
The new traffic arrangement was
reached after a conference between pas
eenser traffic officials over the three
roads and provides for one new train 10
be operated over the Northwestern from
Chicago. As yet. this train has not been
given a name. Il will be on the de
luxe order. being made UP entirely OF
standard sleepers. diner. observation
and iounging and library cars. There Will
be bath rooms. stenographers and maids,
affording all the comforts and convent
ences Of a well appointed hotel.
The new Northwestern-U Union Pacific
train will run solid from Chicago TO San
Fancisco. Passengers win be required to
pay a bonus OF $40 in addition TO the
regular first-class fare. 1t takes the place
Of the Overland Limited and cuts the time
from the lake TO the ocean to sixty-four
hours. It will leave Chicago daily at 7:i5
D. m, reaching Omaha at . a. m. the
following morning. stops will be few and
far between. The equipment will be en-
tireiy new. All cars Will be OF steel con-
struction.
Overland Uses Milwaukee.
In the Encouragement, the old Overland
Limited, which win be that train only
in name. VIII be transferred over to the
Milwaukee and viii leave Chicago daily
at 100 a. m. reaching Omaha at n;so
D. m, the same day. The equipment OF
this train viii be new and Of steel con-
strnction II will carry standard and tour
list sleepers, chair and observation cars,
library and diners. IL will make the run
from Chicago to San Francisco in seventy
two hours
Tho train over the Milwaukee win
carry only first class passengers and
will stop only At principal cities. At
Omaha II will drop one tourist and two
standard sleepers. Al Cheyenne II Will
take on an additional standard sleeper
that will 20 TO San Francisco.
OF the sIeepers dropped out at Omaha
one standard and one tourist will 10 TO
Portland on Union Pacific No. and
smother to Denver on Union Pacific No.
u. At Ogden another standard sleeper
viii be dropped out to be taken to Los
Angeles over the San Pedro route. thus
giving the Milwaukee through car serv-
ice by way OF Omaha to Portland. Los
Angeles and Denver, something that Il
has never heretofore enjoyed. The return
schedules have not yet been worked out.
westbound the train schedules have
been 90 arranged that there will be no
waiting for connections in Omaha With
the exception Of engines the equipment
Win be Northwestern and Milwaukee,
from Chicago to the coast. West Of Omaha
the roads handling the traips will use
their own engines and train crews.
Local officials Of the Milwaukee areI
inclined 10 think they have the best Of
the deal and those OF the Northwestern
feel the same. They are all satisfied and
predict big business for the new service.