George Pullman was one of Chicago’s greatest industrialists, ... The onetime Colorado gold broker developed the “palace car” sleeper in 1864, which brought luxury to the middle class, ...

The party invited by GEORGE M. PULLMAN, the proprietor of the Palace Sleeping Cars, to test the practicability of establishing a line of hotel cars between New York and the Rocky Mountains, left ...

in 1865, a train carried the President's body from Washington D.C. to Springfield, Illinois. Behind the funeral procession, a Pullman sleeping car offered comfortable quarters for several dignitaries.

On Pullman sleeping cars, the team of black porters and maids catered to passengers' every whim. - Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and George Pullman hired them.

Jensen owns his own 1923 Pullman sleeper passenger car that he uses to cater events and charters. The Washington Post via Getty Images Very few utilize the program due to cost restraints.

Chattanooga's Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum got $200,000 in grant funding from a Save America's Treasures Grant to go toward the restoration of a 1925 Pullman sleeper car donated by Southern ...

Chesapeake & Ohio’s ebullient Robert Ralph Young has a 1946 batting average of 1,000. First he went to bat for through transcontinental sleeping car service at Chicago and St. Louis—and scored ...

The park first opened in 2020, and as Chicago’s only national park, it celebrates the Pullman Sleeper Car Company and the employees who were at the center of America’s workers’ rights ...

It’s a train story, but of a different kind. In August 1859, George Pullman introduced the Pullman sleeper car, a first of its kind carriage that became popular, especially for comfortable ...