Sleeping car
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The sleeping car or sleeper 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 main American innovator a
Pullman sleeping car, original to the William Crooks locomotive, on display in Duluth, Minnesota
The first American sleeping car, the "Chambersburg" started service on the CVRR in 1839.
Pullman porter making an upper berth aboard the B&O Capitol Limited bound for Chicago, c. 1944
Open section accommodations of a Pullman car in day mode from c. 1950s.
Pullman Company
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The Pullman Company, founded by George Pullman, was a manufacturer of railroad cars in the mid-to-late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the Unit
Sleeping car
…sleeping car business profitable in the United States was George Pullman, who began by building a luxurious sleeping car (named Pioneer) in 1865. The Pullman Company, founded as the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1867, owned and operated most sleeping cars in the United States until the mid-20th century, attaching…
Workers leave the Pullman Palace Car Works, 1893
Exterior view of a Pullman car
Interior view of a Pullman car
Coach built in 1890 by Pullman for the B&O Royal Blue, now at the National Museum of Railroad History & Innovation in Baltimore, Maryland