Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-02-10 | Page 6 | Silk Train on Fast Time

SILK TRAIN ON FAST TIME A tralnload of silk, vajucd at moro than a million dollars, arrived In Ogden Og-den this morning at 0:0. This train Is run on a schedulo equal In speed to that of the two fast mall trains, Nos. 0 and 10. This is by far the most valuable shipment thus far made The train Is now about 7 hours ahead of its schedulo and it is expected Js run across tho continent to New York will bo made on record time. Great rivalry exists between tho railroads In handling 'these silk shipments, ship-ments, which aside from being immensely im-mensely aluablo, arc also very profitable pro-fitable "to the railroad companies, but are handled on a basis that makes a delay exponsho to tho road handling the traffic. Tho silk cars aro especially built for this trade and though they "resemble "resem-ble the ordinary box car, they are built on regular passenger trucks designed de-signed to stand long,, fast Journeys.