An early Pullman sleeping car American Science and Invention The holiday season just started and, like many of you, I’ve already spent way too much time in crowded airports, cramped airplane ...

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, ...

George Pullman did not invent the sleeping car—most of the credit went to Theodore T. Woodruff, an upstate New York wagon maker whose car debuted in 1857.

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 ...

Do you dream of taking a train to the past? A new company hopes to rekindle the romance of rail travel with historic Art Deco-style cars, old-fashioned berths and service that it claims will recall ...

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.

Pullman recognized the demand in the market for a comfortable passenger rail car, dining car and eventually, a luxurious sleeper rail car. He debuted his Pullman Sleeper Car in 1859. The Pullman ...

A. Philip Randolph set the stage for the Civil Rights movement by forming and leading the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, which 10 years later became the first African American labor ...

Do you dream of taking a train to the past? A new company hopes to rekindle the romance of rail travel with historic Art Deco-style cars, old-fashioned berths and service that it claims will recall ...