In 1925, dignity came for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters when the organization got a charter from the American Federation of Labor. The men were issued name tags. Since the Pullman ...

Railroads formed the backbone of America. Starting in the 1800s, trains hauled millions of pounds of freight and passengers daily from point A to point B.

The little-known story of the wives and maids who helped propel the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters to a groundbreaking agreement with the Pullman Company. Rosina Corrothers-Tucker had spent days ...

It is a 1924 Pullman sleeper car that was donated to the Colebrookdale Railroad. Crews spent two days trucking it in from Duncansville, Pennsylvania, a borough near Altoona. "We were coming down ...

The legacy and impact of George Pullman and the Pullman Porters are featured in murals displayed along the Kennedy Expressway.

Like, real reach-out-and-touch-'em old-school locomotives. Pullman sleeper cars, dining cars and a complete passenger train from pre-World War II days are just some of the pieces that constitute ...

Long-term travel required more comfortable accommodations, which opened the door for the first luxury sleeper service, created by George Pullman of the Pullman Palace Car Company. The sleeper cars ...

Most sleeping cars were Pullman green, although there were exceptions; both the Pennsylvania and Canadian Pacific utilized shades of red on their passenger equipment, for example. With the arrival ...