Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1911 — Special Trains Common Nowadays. [ARTICLE]

Special Trains Common Nowadays.

Trains de luxe, special and not special, are now literally too numerous to mention, says a writer in the Railway Age Gazette. Thg Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Oklahoma City left for Rochester, N. Y., in “the first train ever sent out from Oklahoma City,” steel sleeping cars, dinipg car, etc., all electric lighted and with a conductor and brakeman who were members of the Shrine. Including their wives and a band of music, the company numbered one hundred. The train of steel cars, which is to be furnished by the St Louis and San Francisco and the New York Central for Texas members of the National Ad Men’s convention, to be held in Boston the last of July, will-be the “most modern ever operated in the southwest” To turn for a moment from outer to timer delights, the latest novelty in 'the transportation of merchandise is the “Raspberry Special” of the American Express company, running from New Albany, Ind., to Chicago.