Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-02-04
OISORGANIZED BY WAR
EUROPEAN RAILROAD SYSTEMS
HAVE BEEN HIT HARD.
Many Trains That Had Become Fa-
nous the World Over Have Had
to Be Discontinued in the
BeIIigerent Lands.

'While the war has put all Europe
out of order, no better illustration OF
it's Reorganization could be chosen
than that of it's chaotic railway ge-
ography, presenting an aspect of dis
rupted schedules, broken lines, and
reorganized rOutings on such scale
as to give some idea of the confu-
sion in the belligerent continent be-
gins a bulletin issued by the National
Geographic society. Trains de luxe
are no longer streaHng hosts of Amer
leans over famous railway routes rich
in memories for the travellers of
every country, taking them to historic
grounds, to curative, springs, to noun
tain grandeur, to centers of inter
national smartness, to places for fash
ionable winter sport, and to Mediter-
ranean resorts for springtime and sun
in winter. The trains de luxe of be-
fore the war are no longer running
for hostile frontiers cross their net
work in all directions.
4 of the - most famous European
express trains, only four are still able
/, ~ run. Te. four lines still open are
the Ostend-Vienna express; the Ber-
lin-karlsbad-Ma rienbad express, a
summer train; the South express,
Paris Bordeaux -1run-Madrid-Lisbon !;
and the Siberian express, Moscow.
MISUNDERSTANDING k-Vladivostok. Serv,
ice was halted indefinitely for the
NOrd express, with it's compartments
coming from Paris, Ostend and Brus.
sells, which left Berlin for Petrograd
and Moscow, its sections splitting Ut
for their respective destinations in
Russia at Warsaw. The Nord express
was brilliant European link in the
far-spanning trans-Siberian railway
and in peace times, it pulled out OF
Berlin daily.
Further, the popular Berlin-Tirol
Rome-Naples and Egyptian express
whose many sections were always
filled with travellers, beginning about
this time of the year, has ceased tC
operate. It's conductors and en-
gineers, aristocrats among European
railroad men, with g nsiderable stand
ing in the bureaucra cies of Germany
Austria France and Italy, are now il
all likelihood driving endless lines
of freight cars through war-scarreC
country,
The Orient express was the first ex
press in all Europe before the war
a train whose French, German anC
Austrian sections were not surpassed
by any other of the trains de luxe
It has now lost much of it's interna
tiOnal character; has changed its di
rection; and, in place of the wealth!
and the renowned, it has taken t
carrying soldiers and munitions.
Before the outbreak of the war
the Orient express ran over a lin,
east and west now it runs northwes
and southeast. 1t was made up a
Paris, and it's route was Paris-Strass
burg Munich Vienna Budapest-Bel
grade-Sofa-C onstantinople, while on
of it's sections went to Bucharest. TIL,
Orient express, probably, ran through
more important capitals, cght o
them, and bore more truly interna
tional character than any other trail
in the world The stations of thi
famous train were marked by the ma
tional cities of peoples, and its wa,
halted at either end in earth's tw
foremost historic centers.
The Paris-Karlsbad express ha
stopped. The Peninsula express,
speedy train through France, wher
it rivals the Paris-Marseilles and tn
CalaiS-Basel expresses, still has
clear way on that stretch wherein
is known as the Peninsula express, BIZ
tween Calais and Brindisi. It's Dutc
and German sections coming froI
Rotterdam and Berlin, however, ar
no longer riding behind it. The Pc
trogradVienna-Nice express and tn
Christiania-Pari express, have, alst
had their schedules cancelled by tn
war for an indefinite time. Practical
all Of the Black Diamond, Empir
State and Twentieth Century e,
presses Of Europe are war-stainet
and such timetables as remain /
force are, for civilians, uncertai
things, subject solely to military az