Pullman service has revolutionized the method of travel. Night has been abolished, the sense of distance has been annihilated; fatigue has been reduced to a minimum. In the oldest districts of the east, along the valleys of western rivers, on the wide-spread plains, among the remote peaks of the Rockies, in the deserts of the great southwest, the Pullman car, served by the same trained employees, furnishes the same comforts, and gives the same nights' repose. Improved each year in its mechanical construction, amplified in its service, better served by its attendants, it has set a high standard to the world in the development of railway travel, and in the fifty years of its development it has contributed more to the safety, comfort, convenience, and luxury of travelers than any other similar contribution that has been given to mankind.
INDEX
- Berth construction, Mr. Pullman's new and radical, [99], [100]
- Boudoir cars, the Mann, introduced in Europe, [64], [81]
- Bygone Days in Chicago, its story of the locating of the Pullman shops, [91]
- Chicago Tribune, the, eulogy of the first Pullman cars, [46]
- Cleaning the cars, [152-154]
- Colebrookdale Iron Works, cast the first rails, [4]
- Construction of Pullman cars, [123-129]
- Detroit Commercial Advertiser, the, comments of, on the hotel car, [49]
- Dining car, the first designed by Mr. Pullman, [52];
- Electric lighting of cars, [112-119];
- in England, [113-118]
- England, introduction of Pullman cars in, [61-63];
- Erie railroad, gets the through Pullman service, [78], [79], [82]
- Europe, the Pullman car in, [61-69]
- Flower Sleeping Car Company, [81]
- Gates Sleeping Car Company, competitor of the Pullman Company, [75]
- Gauge, railway, standardized, [48]