. Electric railway journal . AINTENANCE Every live shop, track, line and power plant man is doing something thatothers would like to know about. Such men have a splendid opportunityto assist the industry by notifying the editors of this paper of new thingsthat have been done. Information may be sent in the form of rough notesor short articles, and special rates will be paid for all accepted material. Chicago-Milwaukee Line BeginsDining Car Service Combination Parlor and Dining Cars Installed asPart of Limited Service EquipmentBetween the Two Cities The Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad
. Electric railway journal . AINTENANCE Every live shop, track, line and power plant man is doing something thatothers would like to know about. Such men have a splendid opportunityto assist the industry by notifying the editors of this paper of new thingsthat have been done. Information may be sent in the form of rough notesor short articles, and special rates will be paid for all accepted material. Chicago-Milwaukee Line BeginsDining Car Service Combination Parlor and Dining Cars Installed asPart of Limited Service EquipmentBetween the Two Cities The Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad,operating thirty high-speed limited trains each day be-tween Milwaukee and Chicago, has begun the operationof a special de luxe train called the Gold Coast Limited,which leaves Evanston, 111., at oclock daily andincludes as part of its equipment a thoroughly com-plete dining car service. The initial run of this trainwas made on March 31. The dining car service wasbegun without advertising in order that it might be. INTERIOR OF CAR ARRANGED FOR DINING SERVICE gradually brought into use and any difficulties workedout before the service was announced widely. To obtain the greatest utility from the car, it wasdesigned to serve as both a dining car and parlor this means it is possible for the car to make a tripas a diner, leaving on the run from Evanston,and return as a parlor car and be ready to leave Evans-ton again serving as a diner for the dinner-hour change from dining car to parlor car is made sim-ply by taking out the tables and storing them in a cab-inet provided for the purpose and rearranging thechairs. The plan of the car both as a diner and as aparlor car was shown in Electric Railway Journalfor Jan. 13, 1917, page 84. A former chef from the Santa Fe de luxe train andexperienced dining-car waiters have been kitchen is equipped with a coal range, charcoalbroiler, 250-lb. capacity ice box, a provision cabinetsufficient for sixty p
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