The Story of the Pullman Car

by Joseph Husband

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Published May, 1917

W. F. HALL PRINTING COMPANY, CHICAGO

To
George Mortimer Pullman

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Of the many books from which information was drawn for the preparation of this volume the author wishes to make particular acknowledgment to The Modern Railroad, by Mr. Edward Hungerford, to the article "Railway Passenger Travel," by Mr. Horace Porter, published in Scribner's Magazine, September, 1888; and to Contemporary American Biography, as well as to the many newspapers and magazines from whose files information and extracts have been freely drawn.

J. H.

Chicago, April, 1917

CONTENTS

Chapter	Page
I	The Birth of Railroad Transportation	[1]
II	The Evolution of the Sleeping Car	[19]
III	The Rise of a Great Industry	[39]
IV	The Pullman Car in Europe	[61]
V	The Survival of the Fittest	[73]
VI	The Town of Pullman	[89]
VII	Inventions and Improvements	[99]
VIII	How the Cars are Made	[123]
IX	The Operation of the Pullman Car	[133]
	Index	[159]