The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-05-04
Will SPEED UP
COAST TRAINS
ANOTHER HOUR SAVED ON
COAST TRIPS CHANGES
IN TIME HERE

A. j. DICKINSON, passenger lrdl-
fic manager of the Great Northern
railway announces today that,
effective May 9Th, the running
time of the Oriental Limited be-
tween Chicago, st. Paul and Min
neapolis and the Pacific Coast
will be speeded up and the sched-
ule shortened.
Where Changes Occur
Westbound the Oriental Limited
will leave Chicago 80 minutes
later, while in the Twin Cities
and at all stops as far west as
Grand Forks, the arriving and de-
parting times will be the same as
at present West of Grand Forks
these arriving and departing times
will gradually become earlier. be-
ing Is minutes earlier at Minot
and at all stops throughout Mon
tana. West of Spokane another
As minutes will be made up and
the train will arrive in Seattle
and Tacoma an hour earlier than
at present.
Eastbound it will leave Tacoma
and Seattle an hour later. In the
Twin Cities the time will be the
same as at present, while the
train will arrive in Chicago an
hour earlier. At the same time
the running time of the Glacier
Park Limited will be reduced to
So hours and 80 minutes between
st. Paul and Seattle.
Wolf Point Changes
The speeding up of these two
trains will make the following
changes at Wolf Point. The Orien-
tai Limited westbound will leave
at 1920 a. m. instead of 7:35 a. M,
while eastbound will leave at S:55
a. m. instead of 1928 a m. The
Glacier Park limited will have
the same leaving time westbound
but eastbound it win leave at 9:05
p. m. instead of 8 25 D. m.
Passenger Train Progress
In making this announcement
Mr.. Dickinson says:
"This announcement of the fas-
ter time on the Oriental Limited
between Chicago and the cities of
the Pacific Northwest calls atten
ton in very striking manner to
the progress made in rail passen-
ger travel within the past three
decades. In the year 1895 it re-
quired 68 hours for the Limited"
the Great Northern Railways |
trans-continental train at |
that time, to make the run be- |
tween st. Paul and Seattle over |
1927 miles of main line track. On |
May 9Th it will require approxi- |
mately the same length of time |
for the New Oriental Limited to |
cover the distance between Chi |
cago and Seattle, 2,225 miles. In
other words, the Oriental Limited /
of today covers 39S more miles of |
travel in the same length of time
than it's predecessor did in 1895.
During the intervening 33 years
the Great Northern Railway has
shortened its main line by 33
miles, an average of one mile for
every one of the 33 years This
main line has been pro
1uced by the expenditure of many
millions of dollars in reducing
grades, building steel bridges,
curves and con-
5tructing tunnels in the Rocky
and Cascade mountains.
Contribution To Speed
"The advance in speed of the
Oriental Limited is the result not
alone of shortened mileage but
also by improvement in rock-bal-
lsted roadbed, heavier rails,
greater motive power, the use of
electric block signals
md other modern devices which
nave made rail transportation the
safest in the world At the same
ime tremendous improvement
las been made in the comfort of !
all travel, as evidenced by the
modern equipment now carried on ,
he Oriental Limited with its !
manifold service features. as com
Jared with that furnished by the +
Id Limited" in 1895. Passenger
rain service on the Great North !
,rn Railway in the 80 years which
lave elapsed has kept pace with /
he growth and development Of +
he territory the Oriental Limited !