This Pullman
heavyweight sleeper is painted Pullman Green with logo and lettering
in metallic gold. It was built in 1910 by
Pullman-Standard and runs on six wheel passenger trucks. From
1910 through 1930 Pullman built well over 8,000 steel
sleeping, parlor and club/lounge cars. The introduction of the
steel cars brought the end of the luxurious, artisan-crafted and
custom-designed wooden cars which had been the rule since the
1880s. With the opening of the Pennsylvania Station in New
York in 1910 and the Grand Central Terminal in 1913, passenger
safety in the tunnels approaching these buildings demanded a
more noncombustible material than wood. |
