msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) (07/15/85)
You will be worn out with fatigue. You will be cramped and stiff with the confinement. You will turn blacker than the Ethiop with tan and cinders and be rasped like a nutmeg grater with alkali dust. You can never sleep a wink for the jarring and noise of the train, and never will be able to dress and undress and bathe yourselves like Christians. Above all, your nearest and dearest, under the influence of the fatigue and the monotony and the discomfort, will be ready to turn and rend you before you get down into the Sacramento Valley--and YOU will desire nothing better than to make a burnt offering of them and every one insane enough to shut himself up seven days and nights in a railway car! Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 25, 1877 Seen in the California State Railroad Museum and posted by Mark Brader