Year: 1878




The readers of the newspapers of the day
constantly see mention made of Trunk Line
railroads, but comparatively few fully un-
derstand what is intended by the designa-
ton. Atlantic seaboard, are sometimes not
wrongly called Trunk Lines, as they form
the main arteries OF traffic toward the West.
If any railroad in the country deserves or is
entitled to the name of a grand Trunk Line,
it is the Chicago G. Northwestern Railway.
The company operating this great line now
controls more miles OF railway than any
other in America, il not in the world. 1t is
by all odds the most important line of rail-
road in any way connected with Chicago.
No other road running out Of Chicago car
ries anything like as many passengers or
hauls anything like the volume of freight
that is transported over this road. 1t alone
runs in and out of Chicago every day in the
year, nearly as many passenger trains as all
the other Chicago roads puts together AS
it is with passenger trains so it is with
treight-it not unfrequently brings into Chi
cago fifteen hundred loaded freight cars in a
single day, and if it does not bring in thou
sand cars its managers thiak it is doing
poorly. Forty to fifty passenger trains dai-
ly, leave and and arrive at It's depot at Chi
cago. OF suburban passengers it carries
more than all the otheE roads that run to or
from Chicago. These are facts that can be
established by any one wishiag to do so.
No road but the very best could do the bus
mess that this great line does. Its track is
OF the heaviest steel rail, and is kept in con-
stant repair by the constant vigilance of an
army of track men, and is patrolled day and
night the year through, for the double pur-
pose of keeping every thing connected with
itin perfect condition, and for the entire
safety of its patrons who are travelling over
it.


No road any where can show a superior
track, finer coaches, stronger, sWitter or
better locomotive engines; and no other
road west OF Chicago have ever attempted
to approach it in its equipment Of Pullman
Hotel and Sleeping Coaches. 1t alone of all
the western roads have the celebrated HO-
tel cars, and on this line only can the trav-
eler between Chicago and the Missouri riv-
er procure the comforts and luXuries thai
these cars alone can furnish. Other lines
may talk of Dining cars, and siXteen-Wheel
coaches, but not one OF them can offer you
Il Pullman Or any other form of Hotel car.
These cars combine great luxury with the
greatest obaainable comfort and at no i'll
crease in expense over the common, old
fashioned and ordinary Sleeping car. The
marvel OF those that travel on them is to
know how the company can afford to run
them and charge no more for berths than is
charged in the oltl-tashoned sleeper. The
answer is found in the great volume of trav-
el this road is carrying. The thousands
flock to its lines where the hundreds seek
its competitors, We are sure that no one
who has once seen these cars would ever
use any other il traxeling in the direction
they run.


They are not for the exclusive of the rich
but are Just as comfortable and elegant tor
the poorer traveler-costing to occupy these
cars, no more than does the occupancy of
the old-fasllioned sleeper, no one need for
fear of expense, be prevented from using
them. They have become "the rage,' so
to speak, with the Caltornians, and have
attracted the majority OF that class of travel


Ii you are about to travel east or west be-
tween Chicago and Council Bluffs, Omaha,
Denver or San Francisco, it will pay You to
zee that you get your tickets by the Chicago
s. North-W estern Railway.-Me Democrat.