Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1911 — “HOOSIER LIMITED” WILL BE HERE TOMORROW. [ARTICLE]

“HOOSIER LIMITED” WILL BE HERE TOMORROW.

Rensselaer People Will Be Welcomed At 12:10 to Inspect the Finest Train in Indiana. Agent Beam has been notified by Frank J. Reed, general passenger agent of route, that the new train recently told about in The Republican, will be set off here Wednesday at 12:10 o’clock, and left for a few minutes for the inspection of the public. The train has been in Indianapolis for two days, where it has been admired by many people, and Rensselaer people will be pleased to learn that Mr. Reed has offered to hold the train here for a short time tomorrow for the inspection of the public. About the train the Indianapolis Star says: The new train represents the highest type of equipment. Everything is new from the locomotive to the observation platform of the parlor car. The train consists of locomotive, mail car, combination baggage and smoking car, woman’s coach, dining car and parlor car. The smoker has a seating capacity of thirty-two, the woman’s coach will seat eighty-eight passengers, the dining car, thirty, and the parlor car, fifty. The exterior appearance of the train presents something entirely new in the color line. The lower half of the cars are painted dark green and the upper part light green. Along the top panels adjoining the roof in gilt letters are the words', “Hoosier Limited.” The interior of the cars is elegant, the general finish being selected Cuban mahogany with greed upholstering. The train is electric lighted throughout -

The dining car is one of the finest in service and represents an expenditure of $24,000 atone.. The kitchen contains all of the latest equipment for dinner service. Large tanks carry a supply of filtered water. The observation part of the parlor car is equipped with a large dome electric light for night travel. On the rear platform a large electric sign, bearing the words, “Hoosier Limited," will be placed. It is said that the equipment for two trains, including the locomotives, represents an expenditure of more than $200,000. Three new Pacific type of locomotives are capable of great speed, having seventy-three-inch drive wheels. The combined weight of one locomotive and tender is 190 tons. Under present plans the train will leave Indianapolis at 3 o'clock each afternoon, arriving at Chicago at 7:45 o'clock, cutting seven minutes from the former time. The second train will leave Chicago at noon daily, arriving in Indianapolis at 4:45 in the. afternoon. Besides Messrs. Reed and Alexander, who made the Inspection yesterday afternoon, were W. A Callison, master mechanic of terminals, and W. H. Strang, road foreman of engines; both of Lafayette.