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The Sunrise Izumo is an overnight sleeping car train service in Japan operated jointly by Central Japan Railway Company and West Japan Railway Company since July 1998.
285 series EMU on a Sunrise Izumo service, October 2022
A Sunrise Seto & Sunrise Izumo combined formation on the Sanyo Main Line, May 2012
Sunrise Izumo and Sunrise Seto units being uncoupled at Okayama Station, March 2013
"Single Deluxe" compartment
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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 American innovator of the sleeper car.
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.