Your Guide Book to the Pacific Railroad, 1879
Palace-Car Life on the Pacific Railroad
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By Night By Day |
In no part of the world is travel made so easy and comfortable as
in the Pacific
Railroad. To travelers from the East it is a constant delight, and to
ladies and families it is accompanied with absolutely no fatigue or discomfort.
One lives at home in the Palace Car with as much true enjoyment as in the home
drawing-room.
For an entire week or more, as the train leisurely crosses
the Continent, the little section and berth allotted to you, so neat and clean,
so nicely furnished and kept, becomes your home. Here you sit and read and
indulge in social conversation.
Night time comes, and then as your berth is made up, you
snugly cover yourself up under double blankets for the night air is
always crisp and cold.
The slow rate of speed, which averages but sixteen to twenty
miles per hour, day and night, produces a peculiarly smooth, gentle, and easy
motion, most soothing and agreeable. Here you will sleep as sweetly and refreshingly
as ever upon the home-bed.