Pullman (car or coach) - Wikipedia
Pullman is the term for railroad dining cars, lounge cars, and especially sleeping cars that were built and operated by the Pullman Company (founded by George Pullman) from 1867 to December 31, 1968.
Historic Pullman Collection - Museum of the American Railroad
2020年7月15日 · After a long career, the car was among many older heavyweight Pullmans sold for scrap in the mid-1960s – a victim of the decline in rail passenger service and newer, streamlined sleeping cars. Rather than being scrapped, Glen Nevis was purchased in 1965 by FreightMaster Industries of Fort Worth, a division of Haliburton.
Pullman Company - Wikipedia
After spending the night sleeping in his seat on a train trip from Buffalo to Westfield, New York, George Pullman was inspired to design an improved passenger railcar which contained sleeper berths for all its passengers. During the day, the upper berth was folded up overhead similar to a present-day airliner's overhead luggage compartment.
Traveling in Style and Comfort: The Pullman Sleeping Car
2013年12月11日 · After President Lincoln’s assassination the government elected to use the luxurious Pullman car for the last leg of his funeral train, requiring the renovation of every station and bridge ...
The Pullman History Site : The Pullman Company - pullman …
Pullman and Field secured a contract from the Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railroad to develop a more comfortable sleeping car. Pullman and Field converted two moderately successful cars. Field, more interested in politics than rail cars, assigned his …
Sleep Story - Museum of the American Railroad
2020年7月13日 · The Museum features 10 cars manufactured by the Pullman Company, including four “heavyweight” sleeping cars. In 1867, at the age of 36, George M. Pullman established the Chicago-based Pullman Palace Car Company, bolstered by the attention gained from his luxurious passenger cars used on Abraham Lincoln's funeral train in 1865.
Sleeping car - Wikipedia
The sleeping car or sleeper (often wagon-lit) is a railway passenger car that can accommodate all passengers in beds of one kind or another, for the purpose of sleeping. George Pullman was the American innovator of the sleeper car.
Sleeping Cars (Trains): Traveling Comfort By Rail Since 1838
2024年9月10日 · The sleeper, or sleeping car, added a new level of comfort to rail travel for passengers when they were first introduced by the Pullman Palace Car Company in the 1860s.
Pullman Sleeping Cars add Comfort to Overnight Travel - Rails …
Pullman continued to own and operated most sleeping cars on passenger trains in the United States until the mid-20th century. Pullman also owned and operated some cafe and buffet cars which either ran as a supplement to the railroad owned and staffed dining cars or as the sole source of meals on smaller runs.
Pullman-Standard Company, Fine Builder Of Passenger Cars …
2024年9月9日 · The Pullman Company, from its humble beginnings in the late 1860s by George Pullman, became the face of the passenger train industry during the Golden Age of rail travel through the first half of the 20th century. The company became famous for its passenger train cars, especially its sleeping cars.