Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Transcriber's Note: Underscores are used as delimiters for _italics_] THE STORY OF THE PULLMAN CAR [Illustration: GEORGE MORTIMER PULLMAN 1831-1897] The Story of the Pullman Car BY JOSEPH HUSBAND Author of "America at Work" and "A Year in a Coal-Mine." _ILLUSTRATED_ [Illustration] CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1917 Copyright A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1917 Published May, 1917 W. F. HALL PRINTING COMPANY, CHICAGO To George Mortimer Pullman ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of the many books from which information was drawn for the preparation of this volume the author wishes to make particular acknowledgment to _The Modern Railroad_, by Mr. Edward Hungerford, to the article "Railway Passenger Travel," by Mr. Horace Porter, published in _Scribner's Magazine_, September, 1888; and to _Contemporary American Biography_, as well as to the many newspapers and magazines from whose files information and extracts have been freely drawn. J. H. Chicago, April, 1917 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I The Birth of Railroad Transportation 1 II The Evolution of the Sleeping Car 19 III The Rise of a Great Industry 39 IV The Pullman Car in Europe 61 V The Survival of the Fittest 73 VI The Town of Pullman 89 VII Inventions and Improvements 99 VIII How the Cars are Made 123 IX The Operation of the Pullman Car 133 Index 159 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE George Mortimer Pullman _Frontispiece_ One of the earliest types of American passenger car 8 First locomotive built for actual service in America 9 Early passenger cars 11 American "Bogie" car in use in 1835 12 Cars and locomotive of 1845 14 Car in use in 1844 20 Car of 1831 21 Midnight in the old coaches 23 "Convenience of the new sleeping cars" 24 Early type of sleeping car 28 J. L. Barnes, first Pullman car conductor 32 One of the first cars built by George M. Pullman 42 The car in the daytime 42 Making up the berths 42