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Pullman Trains: America's Hotel on Wheels

Pullman Trains: America's Hotel on Wheels
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These compelling stories will take you back to the era of train travel at its best! They include first-person recollections of Pullman employees and passengers, how Pullman routed its cars, and the various types of Pullman cars and accommodations.

America’s hotel on wheels

Pullman Trains: America's Hotel on Wheels • CLASSIC TRAINS SPECIAL EDITION NO. 27

Empire of hospitality • THE GREATEST NAME IN RAIL TRAVEL WASN’T A RAILROAD AT ALL

Pullman’s progress

I ‘ve been riding the PULLMANS • A TRAVELER LOOKS BACK ON MORE THAN 35 YEARS OF OVERNIGHT TRAIN RIDES

Tales of the Century • A MAN OF LONG TRAVEL EXPERIENCE TELLS OF THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS TRAIN

Names, not numbers • MERE DIGITS COULD NOT HAVE SO CAPTURED THE IMAGINATION

Steel cars, soft berths • Pullman delivered its services via myriad car types and accommodations

Diary of a Pullman Conductor • WORKING THE CARS, FROM THE PEAK OF WORLD WAR II TROOP MOVEMENTS TO THE EVE OF THE JET AGE

Birth of the Broadway • New York to Chicago in 20 hours? “Surely it is an experiment,” said an astonished writer. But the Pennsylvania Special went through on time

PULLMAN SERVICE ACROSS 40 years • WHEN THE SLEEPING-CAR FIRM HAD AMERICA’S TICKET TO ALMOST EVERYWHERE

To Los Angeles on the Chief • THIS ALL-PULLMAN, EXTRA-FARE STREAMLINER GOES “SANTA FE ALL THE WAY” FROM CHICAGO TO CALIFORNIA

FROM A ROOMETTE WINDOW…

PULLMAN IN PICTURES

The Capitol to Chicago • It’s the long way around if you ride B&O’s crack limited all the way from New York, but from the nation’s capital it’s the short way

Seaboard’s Sun Lounge cars • THREE UNIQUE SLEEPER-LOUNGES BROUGHT SOME RAYS OF FLORIDA SUNSHINE TO THE NORTHEAST

Transcontinental trains that might have been • HOW LONG-STANDING IMPEDIMENTS PREVENTED A TRUE PASSENGER-SERVICE INNOVATION

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  • English

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