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Show New Tnin Time Between Denver, Salt Lake City Is Made Shorter Fast New Fost-war Passenger Train Schedules To Go Into Effect Sunday. October 14th On Rio Grande Railroad; One And One-half Hours Cut Fast new post-war passenger train schedules between Denver and Salt Lake will go into effect Sunday, October U, on the Rio Grande Railroad, H. I. Scofield, passenger traffic manager for the .:io Grande anounced today. One and one-half hours will be slashed off the westbound schedule of Train No. 7, and one hour and twenty minutes off the running time eastbound on Train No. S. In addition, an observation-lounge car will be added to the consist of Trains Nos. 7 and 8. The trains, which run over the Moffat Tunnel Route of the Rio Grande, formerly were known as the "Advance Flyer," but will be renamed the "Prospector," Sco-filed Sco-filed said, in lieu of trains bearing bear-ing that name inaugurated several sev-eral years ago, but discontinued during the war because of their limited accomodations. Effective Sunday, the westbound west-bound Prospector consisting of Denver-Salt Lake euipment and a Denver-Oakland tourist sleeper, sleep-er, will depart at 4:30 p. m. from Denver instead of 3:00 p. m. as previously, but in spite of the later departure will arrive at Salt Lake at the same time, 5:00 p. m., but arrival in Denver is scheduled for 8:30 a. m. instead of 9:50 a. m. The Exposition Flyer, running between Chicago and San Francisco, Fran-cisco, over the route of the Burlington, Bur-lington, Rjo Grande and Western Pacific lines, will remain on the same schedule for the present, Scofield said, probably until new "dome car" streamliners are placed into service. |