This
Pullman 12-1 heavyweight sleeper is painted Pullman Green with
metallic gold lettering. Owned by Santa Fe, it displays
the ‘Pullman’ name across the top and ‘Red Oak’
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. |
