From the Cortland Standard of Cortland, NY
Tuesday, June 20, 1876

Midland Centennial Coaches

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   The Midland R.R. Co. has had constructed some very elegant coaches, with a special view to the accommodation of parties going to the great Exposition. One of these coached was drawn up to the junction on Friday last, and has since been examined by a large number of our town's people.It is designed to accommodate a party of twenty-five persons, ladies and gentlemen, and together with a baggage car, to form a special train for Philadelphia and return. If the requisit sized party can be located the train will leave Cortland at 7:30 a.m. on some Monday morning which can be agreed upon, go to Norwich on the Midland road and thence to Jersey City, and from the latter place to Philadelphia over the Pennsylvania Central, reaching that city at 10:30 or 11 p.m. It will be drawn to the Pennsylvania Depot, not more than 100 yards from the main entrance to the Exhibition grounds, and will remain there till the next Saturday morning, when it will return to Cortland.

NOTE : Between Middletown, NY ( the southern end of the NY&OM ) and Jersey City, NJ this train would have used the Middletown, Unionville & Water Gap ( today's Middletown and New Jersey ) to Unionville, NY and the New Jersey Midland ( today's New York, Susquehanna & Western ) to Jersey City, NJ where a connection with the Pennsylvania Railroad's Pennsylvania Central was made.

   During the week it will serve as a hotel for the party, everything which will be needed being furnished by the Company except provisions, which it is expected that the party will either take with them or buy on the spot. A large refrigerator is provided for the reception of edibles, and in connection with the accommodation in the baggage car, brought to enable the travelers to store on board nearly all the food they would require. The coach is provided with twenty-five adjustable folding chairs which can be converted into luxurious beds or couches. Crockery, glassware, knives, forks, tables, &c., are furnished on the train without charge. At either end of the coach is a state-room, or dressing-room, one for ladies and the other for gentlemen, furnished with every convenience. A porter accompanies each coach to attend to the wants of passengers. The fare to Philadelphia and return, with use of coach while there, will be $26.65 for each person if a party goes on the 26th of June or July, and $23.65 after that time. A party of two hundred, we understand, is to go from Syracuse, one of one of 150 from Norwich, and one of 50 from Oswego. For convenience, economy and pleasure, the plan seems to be one of the best among the many which have been devised for visiting the Centennial.