noon
A modern railway journey is without incident or adventure worth recording , unless it be an occasional disastrous collision . No such calamity befell this train . Our travelers talked , dozed , eat , and drank a little through their twenty-four hours ' journey . At noon they reached Philadelphia , at eve New York , at midnight Springfield , and the next morning Boston . It was just sunrise as they arose and stretched their weary limbs and left the train . They had but an hour to spare to go to a hotel and refresh themselves with a bath , a change of clothes , and a breakfast before it was time to go on board their steamer . They were the last passengers on board .