Hol
Thanks for the confirmation, and the newspaper
report. I found two pieces in the 1898 Railway & Engineering
Review about the new equipment including -
On May 1 the
Burlington will put into service new equipment on their fast train Number One,
which leaves Chicago at 10 o’clock in the morning and arrives in Omaha at 11.50
pm the same day, and Denver the next day at 1.30 pm. Pullman standard and compartment
sleeping cars and a Pullman composite car, with smoking room, bath room and
barber shop, will be used, besides reclining chair cars and a dining car. This will be one of the finest trains in
the country.
However, no name was provided.
It would be useful if there was a list of named trains with routes and
dates.
Rupert
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Subject: RE: [CBQ] Chicago-Denver
Rupert:
The Denver Limited
(westbound)/Chicago Limited (eastbound) was indeed the flagship
train on the Chicago-Denver run at the end of the 19th Century. Here's a
news report on its inauguration, from the Denver Post of May 4,
1899:
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