Pullman, George M., birth and early years, 24, 25; first activities in Chicago, 26, 27; first sleeping-car work, 28-32; his first Pullman car, 32-34; the second car, 40; incorporates the Pullman Palace Car Company, 47; his purpose, 48; introduces the hotel car, 49; the first dining car, 52; visits England, 61; installs his cars there, 62, 66-69; establishes shop at Turin, 65; puts vestibule trains in operation, 84; locates new shops at Chicago, 89-93; builds town of Pullman, 93-95; his radical changes in berth construction, 99, 100; introduces the dining car, 103-105; invents the vestibule for trains, 106-110; his vision and achievement, 135, 158; president of the company till his death, 157 Pullman Palace Car Company, incorporated, 47; establishes shops in Detroit, 57; its business, 137, 140, 141; list of directors and presidents, 157 _Pullman, The Story of_, quoted, 94, 95 Pullman, the town of, 89-95 _Railroad Gazette_, the, on electric lighting of trains, 113 Railroad restaurants, the oldtime service, 101-103 Railroad transportation, birth of, 1-15 Rails, the first iron, 4 _Railway Review_, the, describes vestibuled trains, 109, 110; on trial of electric lighting in English trains, 116-118 Railways, the first in England, 4-7; in America, 7-15; change gauge to suit Pullman cars, 48 Reclining chair car, or parlor car, the first, 58 Repairs and repair shops, 146 Sleeping car, the evolution of the, 19-35; the early, 22, 23, 99; Mr. Pullman's first, 28-32; rise of the industry, 39-58 Stagecoach, the English, 2-4, 6 Steel, the first all-, Pullman cars, 123ff. Stephenson, George and Robert, and the first steam engines, 5, 7, 9 _Trans-Continental_, the paper published by Pullman car tourists in 1870, 54 Transportation, birth of railroad, 1-15 Trevithick, Richard, experiments with steam locomotive, 5 Trucks, the, used for Pullman cars, 126 "Twenty minutes for dinner," failure of the system of, 102, 103 Vanderbilts, back the Wagner car, 76, 77, 84, 85 Vestibule invented, 106, 107; vestibuled trains in service, 109; trial trip, 110; welcomed in Mexico, 111 Wagner Palace Car Company, competitor of the Pullman Company, 76-79, 84; loses to the Pullman Company, 85 Wagner, Webster, founder of the Wagner Palace Car Company, 76 Woodruff sleeping car, 81; acquired by the Pullman Company, 83 [Transcriber's Notes All words printed in small capitals have been converted to uppercase characters. Duplicate chapter headings have been removed. The following modifications have been made, Page 129: "carrry" changed to "carry" (will carry from coast to coast)] End of Project Gutenberg's The Story of the Pullman Car, by Joseph Husband