A Century of Pullman Cars

Vol. 1 Alphabetical List
Ralph L. Barber, 1988 319 pages

Table of Contents
6 Foreword
7 Introduction
8 Editor's Note
9 The Sleeping Cars: from Concept to Monopoly?
20 Naming The Cars: Rhyme or Reason?
22 The Palace Cars: The Wooden Cars, 1859-1910
128 The Standard Car Production: Steel, Standardization, Modernization, and Mobilization, 1910-1931
244 The Lightweight Cars: Competition, Speed, Shine and Fancy Paint, 1934-1956
312 Evolution of Innovations: In the Pullman Fleet, 1858-1969
315 Glossary of Term and Abbreviations
318 Index of Illustrations



Vol. 2 The Palace Cars, 1990 437 pages

Table of Contents
vi Preface
viii Foreword
ix How to Use This Book
12 A Half-Century of Palace Cars
20 Painting and Decorating Palace Cars in the 1890s
30 Cars of the 1860s and 1870s
80 Cars of the 1880s
176 Cars of the 1890s
242 The Wooden Pullman Cars of 1900 to 1910
344 The Wagner Palace Car Company
406 The Cars of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
424 Late Rebuilds of the 1920s
430 Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
434 Acknowledgments
435 Index of Illustrations

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