The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-06-08
LINE TRAIN
INCORPORATES OVER
THREE DIVISIONS
New Order of Things On
Rail Line Went. Into Eff
feet Last Sunday
EASTBOUND TRAIN is
OVER 3 HOURS LATER
Westbound To Crowley Due
To Pass Opelousas On
Old Schedule

Old Schedule
In the shifting of train schedules
and the annulling of several passen-
ger trains on main line branches, the
Texas and Pacific railway acted with
out authority or permission Of the
Louisiana railroad commission, ac-
cording to a dispatch appearing in
the Monday addition of the New Or
leans morning paper.
This dispatch further sets forth the
fact that the commission has cited the
railroad company to appear and show
cause why it should not be fined for
it's assumption of authority in can
ceiling trains without permission. The
tangle occasioned by the action of
the railroad company will undoubtedly
reach the courts for the company
long ago stated that the operation
of the discontinued trains was at a
district loss and that the volume O.
business did not justify the continu-
ing Of the trains in service.
Under the new sch5dule affecting
the OpaIousas division, the first train
went through Sunday at 1870, on
time. The westbound train, due here
at 2:O5 in the afternoon. however, was
somewhat late, The service is sp-
paarently satisfactory but allows pas
sengers from points west no time to
transact business in Opelousas and
return home the same day.
Beginning last Sunday new sched-
ule and new arrangement of pas
senger trains went into effect on the
Texas and Pacific railway system in
Louisiana. Locally it effects the Opel
ousas division. the Avoyelles division
and the Eunice branch.
Heretofore these three branches
were operated Independently of each
other, but under the new order they
compose one line and a Circuit
tran is being run over all three, the
two terminals being Eunics and Grow /
ley. One train on the Avoyalles di-
vision is eliminated and the famous
"Hot Shot on the Bunkia-Eunice
branch is a thing of memory.
The new schedule that went into eff
feet Sunday changes the arrival OF
the "boH weeviT from Crowley III
the morning. The return schedule re-
mains the same. The "weevtl leaves +
Crowley at $3.50 a. m. arriving in Opel
ousas at 11:29 a. m, making connec-
ton at Melville with the fast main
lien trains both east and west. Return
ng the train will leave Melville at
p. m. and is due in Opelousas at +,
':O5 and at Crowley at 4: p. m.
In this new service there will be /;
wo trains in operation and each with /
is crew will make the round trip ev- !
Try two days. Two of the trains /
heretofore operating over the three Z
las above stated, have been /
lnnulled. This will prove no hard ,
hip for patrons living along these /
ranches except on the Eunice line, {
where the double daily service has /
,een suspended and the forty-mile /
branch will be served by only one s
rain in each direction daily. |
On the main line all schedules have {
,een somewhat shaken up, and with
he permission and authorization of 1
he railroad commission number Of !
agency stations have {
,een abolished. On the Torras-Addis {
branch a part of the passenger train '
ervice has been replaced by motor I
ar which is expected to serve the {
anne purpose as the expensive train 4
which it substituted.
Faster time on the main line be- !
ween New Orleans and Shreveport is
lmong the innovations OF the SEIZED
lie shake-up. The old main line from
cypress to Shreveport via Mansfield
s now being operated as branch and
las been for about one year. The
lew main line between those
wo points is the old Natchitoches
branch which runs UP Red River to
he north Louisiana metropolis. This
inc has been rehabilitated and placed
n perfect shape. The change was
brought about by the growing inabi-
ity to keep the old main line in first
lass condition.
ANY station agent of the Texas and
Pacific can furnish full information
ibout the change in trains and SEIZED
lies. both on all branch lines and the
main line.
Miss Edna Riseman returned on