Hot Springs, Arkansas; its hotels, baths, resorts and beautiful scenery .. . e distance having been reduced to twenty-twomiles by straightening curves. In October, 1SS9, the roadwas changed from narrow to standard gauge, and, inJanuary, 1890, the first Pullman sleeping car ran throughfrom St. Louis to Hot Springs. This service, with suchadditions and improvements as experience and increasingpatronage have suggested, has continued to the presentday. Col. L. D. Richardson, one of the original projec-tors, some years ago took the position of general manager,and later, upon the death of Mr. Reynol
Hot Springs, Arkansas; its hotels, baths, resorts and beautiful scenery .. . e distance having been reduced to twenty-twomiles by straightening curves. In October, 1SS9, the roadwas changed from narrow to standard gauge, and, inJanuary, 1890, the first Pullman sleeping car ran throughfrom St. Louis to Hot Springs. This service, with suchadditions and improvements as experience and increasingpatronage have suggested, has continued to the presentday. Col. L. D. Richardson, one of the original projec-tors, some years ago took the position of general manager,and later, upon the death of Mr. Reynolds, became alsopresident of the road, which position he holds his administration, a large amount ofmoney has been expended in betterments,the line has been relaid with heavy steelrail, steep grades modified, new bridgesbuilt, and other improvements made,until to-day the property is infirst-class condition railroads, as a generalrule, are but sorry affairs,with poor roadbeds, de-crepit rails and rattle-trap rolling stock, tosay nothing of the.
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