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| PASSENGER TRAIN, EN ROUTE, DUBLIN. -The picture portrays a passenger train steaming out of Dublin for "the provinces." In many respects it differs materially from the "make up" of an American train, as it is modeled entirely on the English plan. The locomotive is of peculiar make, meagre as to smoke stack and destitute of our national pilot and "cow-catcher," thus presenting to the American eye a somewhat crude and altogether unequipped appearance. The cars, or carriages, too, are set higher on their trucks, and open on the sides. There is a narrow platform for the accommodation of "the guard," or conductor, on the sides of the coaches, which are divided into first, second and third class. The higher the class, the nearer the engine. The cars are divided into compartments that usually hold six or eight people, according to the class. The aristocrats have the first class coaches mainly to themselves, and they freeze out, by a rigid silence, any person not of the blue blood who may happen to get in among them. Sensible Irish and British travellers generally ride second class, but the Americans invariably bundle in among the Dukes, Marquises, Viscounts and No Accounts, greatly to the horror of the supercilious exclusive. The railway compartment system is an abomination and has led to frequent horrid crimes, but John Bull is pig-headed and hates to acknowledge that "the Yankees" can teach him anything. |
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