The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-26
New Train on Missouri Pacific
TO Help Local Trade.
Daily Service to Fort Scott
About January 4, Plan.
BETTER BRANCH LINE SERVICE
Towns Along $50 Miles of the
Road To Be Benefited.
Topeka Chamber of Commerce
Was Behind the Move.

New passenger service between To-
peka and MISUNDERSTANDING the
southwestern section of the state for
the first time directly accessible to
Topeka-is the Missouri Pacific's
Christmas and New Years greeting to
this city. In announcement TO the
public utilities commission today, c.
L. Perkins vice president of the Mis-
souri, Pacific, announces daily pas
senger service between Topeka and
Pittsburg with main line connections
at Garnett.
Opens New Trade Territory.
The new passenger service viii
cover the present route of the To-
peka-Fort Scott line and will extend
from Fort Scott to Pittsburg. The
present com bination passenger and
freight service between Topeka and .
Fort Scott will be converted into
freight operation except. single
coach for local passenger travel. The
new train Will make a big new trade
territory accessible to Topeka, and will
also bring realization of this citys
long dream of first class Missouri
Pacific passenger service
While detailed schedules have not
been worked out, it is likely that a
train for Topeka will leave Pittsburg
carly in the morning. The frain will
make direct connections with the
Rainbow special, the roads crack
Kansas City-Little Rock and Hot
Springs train. Connections with this
train from Kansas City viii be made
at Garnett. The Pittsburg train Will
arrive in Topeka before. noon.
Leaving peka late in the after
noon the train will arrive in Pittsburs
at 10 O'Clock or IL o'clock at night,
making a five or siX-hour run between
the two cities. The train will give
shoppers along the route an oppor-
tunity to visit Topeka and return the
same day and Will open a big new ter
ritory for the city.
New Service To Start January =.
1t is likely that the new service VIII
be inaugurated January z.
The Pittsburg and southeastern
Kansas territory has never enjoyed di-
rect connections to Topeka. The new
train will give Topeka visitors from
the southeast their first short and df-
rect line to IKE capital city and Will
Dr1ng Topeka several hours nearer
Crawford, Cherokee, Labette and
Bourbon county towns.
vice President Perkins also an
nounced Inauguration January z OF
the new Larned- Wichita train via
Conway Springs. Double daily service
Will be maintained. A train from Con-
way Springs Will make connections
with the Rainbow Special at Roper.
Known As The Topeka shopper
The train probably will be known
as The Topeka Shopper"
Notice of the intention of the Mis-
sour1 Pacific to start the passenger
service has been received by CLYDE M.
Reed chairman of the public utilities
1t is the start of n program of gen
eral improvement of the branch line
passenger service which we have been
assured the Missouri Pacific is to fol-
low out in the immediate future"
Reed said today.
&. of c. Behind Move.
The Topeka Chamber of Commerce.
representing the retail dealers of the
city, was one of the parties to appear
last summer before the commission In
support of the application for better
passenger service.
The new Topeka. passenger train
will leave Pittsburg in the morning.
and will reach Topeka at about 1890
o'clock in the afternoon, according to
the tentative plans of the road. It
will leave Topeka for its return to
Pittsburg at about $3.50 o'clock, and
will connect at Garnett. Kan, both go
ing and coming. with the Missouri Pa
cific Rainbow Flyer. a thru train from
Kansas City to Hot Springs. Ark. The
connection will be made in such a way
that passengers may leave Indepcn-
dence. Neodcsha. Eredonia, and other
towns in the southwestern portion Of
the state in the morning on the Rain
bow Flyer, and by transferring at
Garnett can reach Topeka shortly
after noon on the same day.
In the same way they can take tho
Missouri Pacific out of Topeka at $3.50
o'clock in the afternoon, and connect
ing with the thru train at Garnett. can
reach their southeastern Kansas dcs-
tinations early in the evening.
This is the long distance benefit 10
be secured from the additional serv-
ice. The local shopping territory OF
Topeka, will be equally well served
5y the train.
Line Is $50 Miles Long.
The line on which the daily pas
senger service is to be inaugurated,
IS approximately $50 miles in length.