The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-06-01
FAST north COAST
AND COMETS TO USE
40 MEN IN CREWS
First of Limiteds to Start
From st. Paul; Simultaneous
Movement West and East
EIGHT ENGINES PER UNIT
With Addition Of Pacific and At.
Iantic Express 20 Flyers
Move at Same Time

In preparation for launching, Sun
day June g., the fastest train service
ever operated between Chicago and
the Pacific Northwest, nearly a
miles length of Enthusiastically
modern North Coast Limited equip
ment this week will be split into eve
for the new operation.
Passenger and transportation Of
ficialS Of the Northern Pacific for
months have been diligently at work
o.. the new time card.
The North Coast Limited will be
the first Of the 63-hour wcstbound
trains to operate out of the st. Paul
Minneapolis terminal and the first
to arrive at Seattle, Tacoma. and
Portland. This train will make the
castbound trip In GA hours. The
North Coast Limited will share with
one Of the other roaGo in the inaug-
uration of the first train on this
faster service out Of the Chicago. Sc
attic and Tacoma terminals. and will
be the first out of Portland.
The North Coast Limited. which
just has observed the twenty-ninth
anniversary of its maiden trip, thus
will lead the procession westerly on
the new fast time.
Highly Technical Task
Establishing the new service on
Sunday. June 9. furnishes to trans
portation officials OF the railroad a
highly technical task. The first
North Coast Limited will be made up
at st. Paul. leaving Westbound at Sis
a. M. actually marking the launch
ing of the new service. and reaching
Seattle at 10 a. m. m June II. Start
ing from Seattle. Tacoma and Port
land eastbound at the dinner hour,
also on Sunday. June 9. this unit of
the North Coast Limited fleet will
arrive at Minneapolis at 1910 p. M.
June II. st. Paul at 10:45 p. m. and
at Chicago at $50 a. M. June IL. On
Sunday, June 8. at 8 p. M. another
westbound North Coast Limited will
leave from the eastern terminal.
Thereafter. other trains Of the fleet
will move into service from their
terminals at the appointed hour until
at 8 p. m. on June IL six distinct
North Coast Limiteds will be operat-
ing between Chicago and the North
Pacific terminals. All will have gone
into service with utmost precision and
the new fast service will be entirely
in gear.
Thus, at Q p. m. on June II. one
westbound train will be leaving Chi
cago. another will be nearing Dick
inson. N. D.. and a third approaching
Spokane. Wash. EaStbound, at the
same hour, one train, three hours out
Of Seattle, will be passing over the
Cascade mountains. A second will be
moving over Bozeman mountain, near
Livingston. Mont. and a third travel
ing through Minnesota, nearing Min
neapolis-St. Paul.
Two Transcontinentals
The Northern Pacific. under its
schedule, will have also between
Chicago and the Pacific Northwest
daily another transcontinental train.
making two transcontinental trains
between the western and eastern ter
minals. They will be the North Coast
Limited and the Comet. while be-
tween st. Minneapolis and the
Pacific Northwest will be a third
transcontinental train. Beginning
June Is. q second section Of the
Comet will operate between st. Paul.
Minneapolis and Gardner, Mont. the