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Title: Railway and Locomotive Engineering
Year: 1904 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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VE CO. 23 S. Jefferson St. CHICAGO - - ILL. K^o ipcomotive Ell^lllBCrillS A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances y»i XXV. 114 Liberty Street, New York, April, 1912. Ne. 4 On the Golden State Limited. times enchantiii;^ > iihw^ m I i m 1. ill, and by mountains, mist-mantied and During the wild winter through which sas City westward there is little danger white-crested, and anon into flowcr- we have happily passed those of us who of stopping over for a day or two while spangled expanses where the winter wind were fortunate enough to be able to the snow plough clears the cuttings down never comes, and where the green fields make a brief sojourn in the land of ever- the line. The road is kept clear by the and woody wilderness seem forever in lasting June, nothing could be imagined constanlly increasing traffic, and uben bloom, finer than a trip on tlie Rock Islam! l.im^ ilir (,m1,;, n St.it. liniitrd ..inK< .il.ni; Of the train itself it may be truly said
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Golden State Limited train de luxe toCalifornia. This train operates betweenChicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and ElPaso, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Santa Bar-bara, Del Monte and San Francisco. The route over which this train is op-erated is the direct route of the low alti-tude tliroueli the ever interesting and oft- everything seems as if prepared for aroyal progress, and the train passes fromState to State and from zone to zone withan case and elegance begotten of the high-est kind of scientific management, andfrom the frozen North one passes throughan ever-moving panorama of far-sprcad-mg prairies where the cattle wander at that the general feeling of gladness com-mon to travelers who safely reach theirjourneys end seems to be reversed inthe case of the Golden State Limited. Thelovers of comfort and elegance and theever-varjing kaleidoscope of nature inher full-blossomed beauty and serene soli-tude, hate to leave the luxurious cars. It 118 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. April, 1912

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