Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-20
REORGANIZATION
 THROUGHOUT EUROPE
Only Four of Twelve Famous Express Trains Able to Run-Lines Given
 Over to Freight and War Business.
CSpeciaI to The RuIIe+inO

Especial to The Bulletin.)
 Washington, D. C., Dec 19.-"while the war has put all Europe out of order, no better illustration of its Reorganization could be chosen than that of it's chaotic railway geography, presenting an aspect of disrupted schedules, broken lines, and reorgan- 1Zed rOutings on such a scale as to give some idea of the confusion in
 the belHSerent continent" beSins a
 bulletin just issued by the National Geographic Society. Trains de luxe
 are no longer streaking hosts of Americans over famous railway routes rich in memories for the travellers
 of every country, taking them to
 historic grounds, to curative springs,
 to mountain grandeur to centers of
 international Emartness, to places for
 fashionable winter sport, and to Med iterranean resorts for Springtime and
 sun in winter. The trains de luxe of
 before the war are no longer running;
 for hostile frontiers cross their net
 work in all directions.
 Of the twelve most famed Euro
 pean express trains, only four are still able to run. The four lines still open
 are the Ostend-Vienna Express; the
 Berlin -karlsbad- Marienbad Express
 Paris = BOrdeauX-I Irun- -Madrid-Lisbon:
 and the Siberian Express, Moscow Krasnoj nojarsk-Irkutsk-N -NladivOstok. Ser
 vice has halted indefinitely for the
 NOrd Express, with its compartments coming from Paris, Ostend and Brus-
 sels, which left Berlin for Petrograd
 and Moscow, it's sections splitting up
 for their respective destinations in Russia at Warsaw. The Eord EI-
 press was a brilliant European link
 in the far-spannins Trans-Siberian railway. and, in peace times, it pulled
 out of Berlin daily.
 Further. the popular Berlin n-Tirol- Rome Na nlGS and E,gVnTIan ENnTpC9 whose many sections were always filled with travellers beginning about this time of the year. has ceased [ operate. Its conductors and ensin- | eers, aristocrats among European railroad men, with considerable stand ing in the bureaucraCies of Germany, Austria. France and Italy. are now, | in all likelihood, driving endless lines of freight cars through war-scarred country, carrying men and munitions | to the various battle fronts.
 The Orient Express was the first l express in all Europe before the war, a train whose French, German and Austrian sections were not surpassed | by any other of the trains de luxe. l It has now lost much of it's interna- l tiOnal character; has changed it's di- reCtiOn; and, in place of the wealthy and the renowned, it has taken to carrying soldiers and munitions.
 Before the outbreak of the war. the l Orient Express ran over line east and west: now it runs northwest and | southeast It was made up at Paris, and it's route was -Strassburg- | Munich Vienna lBuda pest Belgrade Sofia -Constantinople. while one of its | sections went to Bucharest The Ori- | ent Express, probably, ran through more important capitals, eight of them. l and bore a more truly international | character than any other train in the world The stations of this famous | train were marked by the national ci- | ties of peoples, and Its way halted at ] either end in earth's two foremost l historic Centers. The Orient Express l was Europe's prOudest boast in inter
 national railroading and 1t represent | ed luxury and comfort brought to the