six o'clock
It was supplied with saloon cars , balcony cars , restaurants and smoking-cars . Theatre cars alone were missing , and they will have these some day . Book and news dealers , sellers of edibles , beverages and cigars , who seemed to have plenty of customers , were continually circulating in the aisles . The train left Oakland station at six o'clock . It was already night , cold and cheerless , the heavens being overcast with clouds which seemed to threaten snow . The train did not proceed rapidly . Counting the stops , it did not run more than twenty miles an hour , which was a sufficient speed , however , to enable it to reach Omaha within its designated time .