RAILROADS: The Fight for the 5:05

Like commuters everywhere, riders of the Chicago & North Western's 5:05 train to Geneva, III. find plenty of cause to grumble. The train runs up to an hour late, the coaches are sooty, the lights almost too dim to read by, the roof occasionally leaks and rains out bridge games. But these gripes were mild compared to the howl that went up when the line asked the Illinois Commerce Commission to discontinue the 5:05.

Bad as the 5:05 was, some Geneva travelers thought that the other commuting trains, the 5:33 and the 5:50. were worse. To save the 5 5:05,...

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