view raw text
. ; ■ ■ [ ; _ " ; . [ . i RECORD R. R. DERBY TRAVEL District Superintendent of Pullman Company Predicts Number of Cars Will Exceed Previous High Mark. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 3.— With a record number of racing fans riding the various railroads serving this city to attend Saturdays running of the Kentucky Derby, all attendance and travel marks for Americai. premier spring sports event may fall. Local railroad officials report that reservations for special cars and extra Pullman sleepers and coaches already approach the all-time-high record and many of the rail executives believe the number required this year will establish a new figure. H. A. Hudwalker, district superintendent for the Pullman Company, stated today that it appears that the record will be exceeded. It was made in 1927 wiien 474 extra Pullman cars pulled into the different railroads serving Louisville, and late yesterday 450 cars had been booked. Last year 406 cars came into the Derby city and with several days yet remaining, Hudwalker believes the number of cars this year will exceed that of 1927. Typical of the increased railroad travel this year is the Baltimore and Ohio list. It contains reservations for special and private cars from most of the eastern centers. One of the roads premier trains, the National Limited, a four-motored diesel-engined special, made up of fifteen cars, will bring the parties of Postmaster General James A. Farley, Jesse Jones, and other national figures from Washington. Several other special trains will operate over this line. L. and N. SPECIALS. The Louisville and Nashville will draw a large number of private cars and run at least as many, if not several more, special trains than a year ago. Special cars will come from California, Missouri, Texas, Okla-1 homa, Tennessee and Arkansas points and arrangements for capacity travel on regular trains have been made. Other specials will come from Detroit, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and. New York. The Pennsylvania Railroads schedule now contains some seventeen private cars to come from New York, Philadelphia and Washington, six from Pittsburgh, as many from Chicago together with three all-express expense tour trains from the latter city and three full special trains from the same point A sixteen car special to come over the Chesapeake and Ohio from West Virginia will transport a group of prominent residents of that state and their parties. The road also has specials booked from points in Ohio and New York. Some specials this year will originate at population centers which never before had extra, direct rail service to the Derby. Most of the special trains will arrive Fri-[ day or early Saturday. • ■ I
