| This Pullman
28-1 heavyweight parlor car is painted Pullman Green with metallic
gold lettering. Owned by Santa Fe, it displays the ‘Pullman’
name across the top and road number 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. |
