Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — ANOTHER GOOD MOVE. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER GOOD MOVE.

The Illinois Central Adds a New Fast Day Train to Its Chicauo-St. Louis Service, the Diamond Special Continuing as Before. Beginning Aug. 1 the Illinois Central will add a netv solid fast vestibule day train to its Chicago-St? Louis service, which will make the run between bp two cjties in eight and a half hours. It will be known as tjie “Daylight Special,” and will leave Chicago at 10:35 a. m., arriving at St. Louis at 7:04 p. tri.; returning, leaving St. Louis at 8:32 a. m. and arriving at Chicago! at 5 p. tn. It will carry a free, reclining chair car and an elegant Pullman combination parlor and buffet car, This in addition to tne regular night train, the Diamond Special, with-its free reclining chair car, its elegant Pullman full comparthient sleeping car and Pullman combination sleeping car containing buffet, state rooms rind open sections, which will continue to leave Chicago at 0 p. m., arriving at St. Louis 7:24 a. m,; returning, leaving St. Louis at 9:10 p. m., hnd arriving at Chicago at 7:35 a. m. , ’ These trains will, in every sense, be solid through trains of the Illinois Central Railroad for the entire distance between Chicago and St. Louis, but they will bo,th run via a new route from Pana to St. Louis, i. e., over the tracks of the Big Four Route, the line between Ctiicdgo and Pana being over the Illinois Central via Clinton—regular route of Diamond Special. Trains make tegular stops in both directions in Chicago nt 22d street. 39th street, Hyde Park and (13d street stations, for the accommodation of patrons to or from the Kenwood, Hyde Park. Pullman or South Chicago districts of the city. i