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Pullman developed the sleeping car which carried his name into the 1980s. 1902, to operate a railroad car manufacturing facility at Butler, Pennsylvania...
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The Pullman Sleeping Car was invented by George Pullman in 1857. Pullman's railroad coach or sleeper was designed for overnight passenger travel. Sleeping cars were being used on American railroads since the 1830s, however, early sleepers were not that comfortable and the Pullman Sleeper was very comfortable.
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Home TrainWeb.org: Railroad Community Rail Ring: Railroad Webring Join Our eMail List Advertise With Us Amtrak Superliner Sleeping Cars - Amtrak Superliner Sleeping Car Accommodations, including photographs and detailed descriptions of seats, rooms, train cars and services.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on sleeping car (railroad vehicle), railroad coach designed for overnight passenger travel. The first sleeping cars were put in service on American railroads as early as the 1830s, but these were makeshift; For a definition of "sleeping car (railroad vehicle)", visit Merriam-Webster.
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While it still has the external appearance of a Pullman sleeping car with a few of the drawing rooms retained, Glen Nevis was modernized with its own kitchen and generator so it could serve as a self sufficient rolling laboratory while on the railroad.
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Rail Cars of the 19th century: Car Builder's Dictionary, 1884, shows the design of railroad cars including the dining, fruit, Pullman Palace, and emigrant sleeping cars. There was a Silver Palace Sleeping Car Company operating cars under Woodward patents on several eastern railroads, See: R&LHS "Railroad History," issue 135,
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Pullman Palace Car Company Pullman, George Mortimer, 1831–97, American industrialist and developer of the railroad sleeping car, b. Brocton, N.Y. As a young man he became a cabinetmaker, and after he moved (1858) to Chicago he began converting (1859) old railroad coaches in order to facilitate long-distance traveling.
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At 12:01 AM on Oct. 1, 1940, the Pennsylvania Turnpike opened a 160 mile stretch from Carlisle to Irwin; with half a dozen of its tunnels and forty miles of road being built on the abandoned right-of-way of the South Pennsylvania Railroad.
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