Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-12-08 | Page 12 | Union Pacific Has Modern Steel Cars

UNION PACIFIC HAS ! MODERN STEEL CARS To be prepared to handle its share of the anticipated heavy travel during dur-ing the coming year, the Union Pacific Pa-cific system, which Includes the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line and the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation company, compa-ny, hns purchased from t ho Pullman company 107 solid steel passenger cars. The equipment which Is valued val-ued at approximately $1,500,000, con sists of thirty-two baggage cars, four baggage mail cars, twenty-one dining cars, eight observation cars, two parlor par-lor cars ten coaches and thirty chair cars. Delivery of the cars is being made now. The order Is said to he one of the largest placed by any railroad rail-road in recent years. The cars are of solid stel as distinguished dis-tinguished from those having wooden wood-en framework with a steel shell. Though the cost is greater, officials of the Union Pacific believe the money mon-ey Is well spent and in keeping with the efforts for "safety first." They supplement the road's fine system of automatic electric block safety signals, sig-nals, with which iK lines are protected protect-ed all the way to Chicago. The Union Pacific system is a pioneer pio-neer in the ure of steel cars and for years has purchased no other kind The cars are equipped with every modern appliance for the convenience and comfort of passengers The cars have concrete floors and bubbling drinking fountains and are so constructed con-structed that they will not be affected affect-ed by climatic conditions.