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The ''Oriental Limited'' was a named passenger train that ran between Chicago, Illinois and Seattle, Washington. The train was operated by the Great Northern Railway between St. Paul, Minnesota and Seattle, Washington, and by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad between St. Paul and Chicago. The train's name was intended to be evocative of travel to the Far East, since trans-Pacific Great Northern steamships once connected with the railway's trains in Seattle. The ''Oriental Limited'' started in December 1905 as a St. Paul–Seattle train; the route was extended to Chicago in 1909. In summer 1926 it was scheduled Chicago to Seattle in 70 hours. It was the premiere train on its route until 1929 when the ''Empire Builder'' started. The ''Oriental Limited'' name disappeared in 1931, and during the Great Depression and beyond the Great Northern operated only one through train between Chicago and the coast. The ''Oriental Limited'' name returned in 1946, when the railroad's secondary through train was resumed, but that train became the ''Western Star'' in 1951. ==Gallery== File:Great Northern Oriental Limited 1912.JPG|Observation platform, 1912 File:Oriental Limited maid service circa 1920s.JPG|Maid service in the Ladies' Lounge car File:Great Northern Railway Oriental Express telephone.JPG|Passenger telephone service File:Oriental Limited observation car tea.JPG|Afternoon tea in the train's observation car File:Parlor car-Oriental Limited circa 1910s.JPG|The train's parlor car. A porter is shown vacuuming the carpet. File:Oriental Limited womens shower.JPG|One of the train's many luxury features was a shower for passengers. Seen here is the shower for women. File:Great Northern Railway Oriental Limited Cascade Tunnel 1918.JPG|Exiting the Cascade Tunnel in 1918 being pulled by an electric locomotive File:Oriental Limited in Rocky Mountains.JPG|The train in the Rocky Mountains File:Oriental Limited dining car.JPG|Dining car circa 1927 File:Great Northern Railway Docks in Seattle with Steamships Minnesota and Dakota.JPG|Great Northern's Seattle docks circa early 1900s 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oriental Limited」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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