| This Pullman
10-1-2 heavyweight sleeper is painted Pullman Green with metallic
gold lettering. Owned by Santa Fe, it displays the ‘Pullman’
name across the top and ‘Moose Lake’ across the bottom,
also in metallic gold. It runs on six-wheel passenger trucks.
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. |
