. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 36 Liberty Street, New York, January, 1908 No. I The was on the Union Pacific Railroadthat Phileas Fogg was a passenger inhis celebrated trip Around the Worldin Eighty Days, of which Jules Vernewrites in his interesting romance oftravel and adventure. Mr. Fogg madethe supposed trip about a quarter of acentury ago, and in writing of the day. The equipment of the Union Pa-cific trains to-day consists of palacecars, diners and observation cars, whichlatter is probably what Jules Vern
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 36 Liberty Street, New York, January, 1908 No. I The was on the Union Pacific Railroadthat Phileas Fogg was a passenger inhis celebrated trip Around the Worldin Eighty Days, of which Jules Vernewrites in his interesting romance oftravel and adventure. Mr. Fogg madethe supposed trip about a quarter of acentury ago, and in writing of the day. The equipment of the Union Pa-cific trains to-day consists of palacecars, diners and observation cars, whichlatter is probably what Jules Vernemeant by balcony cars. The moderncars are all much longer, heavier, saferand far more comfortable than those inwhich the sedate and very English traveled. find that Brindisi is almost at the heel ofItaly, relatively just about where theheel and sole of the shoe join. FromBrindisi the rest of the journey ismade by water usually in one of theP. & O. steamers. Although there isa good deal of water travel on any tripto India, yet by reason of the railwayjourney from the north of France to. THE OVERLAND LIMITED ON THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. Pacific railroad of those days theauthor speaks of the American trainwhich his ultra-English hero foundready to start from San Verne says of it: Through thewhole length of the train the cars com-municated by platforms, and the passen-gers could move about from one end tothe other of the train, which placed attheir disposal palace, balcony, restaurantand smoking cars. All that is wanting isa theatre car, but that will come some The Overland Limited is the name ofa very well known train, or rather sys-tem of trains on that road, for there ismore than one which bears that designa-tion, but the name is no doubt derivedfrom the older expression OverlandRoute which was given by the in-habitants of Great Britain to their alter-native route to India. One might go fromLondon to India by water or one mightcross to the continent an
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