File:Railway and locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1912) (14758027311).jpg

Identifier: railwaylocomotiv25newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors:
Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
n hand. OMALLEY-BEARC VALVE CO. 23 S. Jefferson St. CHICAGO - - ILL. K % locomotive £1111116611115 A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances V»l. XXV. 114 Liberty Street, New York, April, 1912. Ne. 4 On the Golden State Limited. During the wild winter through whichwe have happily passed those of us whowere fortunate enough to, be able tomake a brief sojourn in the land of ever-lasting June, in idling could lie imaginedfiner than a trip on the Rock Island Lines times enchanting Southwest. From Kan-sas City westward there is little dangerof stopping over for a day or two whilethe snow plough clears the cuttings downthe line. The road is kept clear by theconstantly increasing traffic, and whenthe Golden State Limited comes along will, and by mountains, mist-mantied andwhite-crested, and anon into flower-spangled expanses where the winter windnever comes, and where the green fieldsand woody wilderness seem forever inbloom. Of the train itself it may be truly said
Text Appearing After Image:
GOLDEN STATE LIMITED. ROCK ISLAND LINE?.Copyright Detroit Publishing Co. 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 through 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 ease and elegance begotten of the high-est kind of scientific management, andfrom the frozen North one passes throughan ever-moving panorama of far-spread-ing 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-varying kaleidoscope of nature inher full-blossomed beauty and serene soli-tude, hate to leave th

Note About Images