| This 83’
Pullman heavyweight sleeper 10-1-2 is painted orange with maroon
bands on the letterboards. The herald is lettered in metallic
gold as well as the rest of the lettering. The roof, undframe
and trucks are brown. This sleeper was built in 1911 as the ‘Orleans’,
rebuilt in 1927 as the ‘Marquette’, and scrapped in
1949. The builder was Pullman-Standard. The introduction of the
steel cars brought the end of the luxurious, artisan-crafted 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. |
