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Title: The story of the Pullman car
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Husband, Joseph, 1885-1938
Subjects: Pullman Company Sleeping cars (Railroads)
Publisher: Chicago, A. C. McClurg & co.
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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get a drink. The two remodeled Chicago & Alton coaches wereinstantly accepted by the public, but despite theirpopularity, and the popularity of a third car whichfollowed them, their originator considered themmerely as experiments and in 1864 plans for thefirst actual Pullman car were completed which gavepromise of a car radically different in its con-struction, appointments, and arrangement from any-thing heretofore attempted. Into this car Pullmanresolutely cast the small capital that he had accu-mulated; in its success he placed the unswervingconfidence that characterized his clear vision andindomitable determination to succeed. This modelcar was built in Chicago on the site of the presentUnion Station in a shed belonging to the Chicago &Alton Railroad, at a cost of $18,239.31, withoutits equipment, and almost a year was required beforeit was ready for service. Fully equipped andready for service it represented an investment of$20,178.14. The Pioneer was the name chosen (32)
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J. L. Barnes, the first Pullman car conductor, whose reminiscencesof that early period are quoted in this book EVOLUTION OF THE SLEEPING CAR for its designation, and with the faith that othercars would soon be required the letter A wasadded, an indication that even Mr. Pullmans visionfailed to anticipate the possible demand beyond thetwenty-six letters of the alphabet. Never before had such a car been seen; never hadthe wildest flights of fancy imagined such mag-nificence. Up to the building of the Pioneer$5,000 had represented the maximum that had everbeen spent on a single railroad coach. It was unbe-lievable that this $18,000 investment could yield aremunerative return. The Pioneer had improvedtrucks with springs reinforced by blocks of solid rub-ber; it was a foot wider and two and a half feethigher than any car then in service, the additionalheight being necessary to accommodate the hingedupper berth of Mr. Pullmans invention. Com-bined with its unusual strength, weight, and soli

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