Show CHICAGO NEW LIN LINE E the only way all the way tire alton aa 1 sum 0 to o live a mcw chit line att ca bt bl louici aril kana kan a rily city the new aut ob 1 Is to he olie nerl lo in jutis june then the hie st sl louis to kansas kanmi city will be only 29 9 s the co 65 mile cut olf oil which shortens ensi the hoSt st toul loul kimma city 11 alae tie Is s level arid and at Might the maximum grade twenty six feet to the mile half 0 of one per cent the maximum curvall vo li Is only one me per cent the road Is properly called an air line ninety two per cent being perfectly track trac k there Is one tangent of eighteen nilles and another of fourteen miles but ibele tangents could properly be called a straight track for thirty two miles the bridges are of steel the culverts cu lverts are of concrete and the road which Is magnificently built Is ballasted ballested bal lasted with rock the tracks are eighty flye five pound steel rails one hundred and thirty three feet long ion there are 1116 thirteen passing tracks ol of three thousand feet feel each over seven miles of fassl passing ng tracks which owing tu to their great length might be called double there are no grade for railroads and very few ew krade grade crossings crossin Rs for country roads four dally trains train I 1 in B ca each c h direction will be operated and the time tables and equipment sill equal to la every way the chicago alcons noted chic chicago agost ago st louis service tile open i rig of rhe ci I 1 bago A al tons new line between st lo 10 1 ila Is and kansas city fittingly and permanently commemorates the i be louisiana purchase Pur chiBe exposition E in tine time or of completion and also in other ways the alcons new line Is typical of the fair th the 0 o st louis exposition will show the highest exam pie ot of every product of 0 all kinds in the world orld as will the chicago alton new line show tile the highest standard to which the worlds railways can be brou brought gh t As the worlds fair will illustrate the pro ceases which nuke make american goods preferred in the markets of the world so BO the chicago alton will illustrate in all details construction equipment and operation tile the accepted standards aich serve or as models tor for the worlds world Is benm anpo carriers |