Identifier: summertoursviami00mich (find matches)
Title: Summer tours via the Michigan central, "The Niagara Falls route" ..
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Michigan central railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Summer resorts
Publisher: (n.p.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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-as luxurious as the average palaca-car. A hundred others might be mentioned,unkno-\vn to the traveling public, yet of inestimable importance. Not one in athousand of those who travel at lightning speed in its palatial fast trains, diawnby ten-wheeled, sixty-ton Great Mogul engines, over its magnificent solidroad-bed laid with ninety-pound steel Iails, equipped with interlocking switches,and guarded by an army of emploj^es, know and appreciate, or can know andappreciate, the labors and cares and incessant vigilance that has made iDossiblehiS safe, sme, and comfortable journey. To adequately describe these wouldtake a much larger book than this. But the splendid equipment and successfuloperation of the Michigan Central, with its remarkable freedom from seriousaccident, is a grand result that proves the processes by which it has beenreached. The constant improvements in the service and equipment of tlie MichiganCentral have elicited frequent comments from the newspaper press, one of the
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The Buttet Library Car of the North Snore Limited. — Michigan Central. (8) A Word to the Tourist. & most recent of which was the following from the Chicago Tribune of May 17,1890, announcing the companys latest triumph, the North Shore Limited: The Fast Limited Train of the Michigan Central, heretofore mentioned inThe Tribune, will be placed in s?r\-ice next Sunday, and will be known as TheNorth Shore Limited. The west-bound train from New York to Chicago willmake the time in twenty-five hours, leaving New York at 4.50 p. m., lew Yorktime, and arriving in Chicago at 4.50 p. m., Chicago time. This is a strictly lim-ited train, upon which the company is obliged to charge for extra service andsleeping-car accommodations. On account of the large Nev\ York State business which the east-boundtrain from Chicago to New York is obliged to carry, the company had to addmaterially to the number of stops in the East, and to extend its time. This trainwill leave Chicago at 12.20 p. m. and arr

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