This 83’
heavyweight 12-1 sleeper is painted Pullman Green with gold logo
and lettering. It was built by Pullman Standard in
1910 and runs on six-wheel passenger trucks. From 1910 through
1930 Pullman built over 8,000 steel sleeping, parlor and
club/lounge cars: almost half of these were the famous 12 section
– 1 drawing room (‘12-1’) sleepers. 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. |
