The Story of the Pullman Car

by Joseph Husband

• Knight car, used on eastern roads, [80]

• Lighting, [31], [112];
  • the Pintsch light, [82], [112];
  • electric, [112-119]
• Linen, requirements to supply the cars, [147-149]
• Locomotive, the beginnings of the, [5-9];
  • the American, [11], [12]
• London Telegraph, the, comments on the dining car, [67];
  • on the introduction of electric lighting in Pullman cars, [115], [116]

• Mann Boudoir Car Company, incorporated, [81];
  • acquired by the Pullman Company, [83]
• Mann, Colonel, designs a sleeping car, [63];
  • his "boudoir cars" installed in Europe, [64];
  • his Company acquired by the Pullman Company, [83]
• Monarch Sleeping Car Company, competitor of the Pullman Company, [84]
• Napoleon's field carriage, [2], [3]

• Operation of the Pullman car, the, [133-158]

• Parlor car, or reclining chair car, the first, [58]
• Porter, the, of the Pullman car, [155], [156]
• Presidents and directors of the Pullman Company, [157]
• Pullman, A. B., assistant of his brother, George M., [47]
• Pullman car, the first actual, [32-34];
  • rise of the great industry, [39-58];
  • first trip of, to the Pacific coast, [53], [54];
  • first through train from Atlantic to Pacific, [54-57];
  • in Europe, [61-69];
  • shop for making, established in Turin, [65];
  • reception of in England, [66-69];
  • imitation of, and competition from others, [73-85];
  • acquires the Mann and Woodruff companies, [83];
  • wins suits against the Wagner Company, [85];
  • rapid expansion of business, [89];
  • locates new shops at Chicago, [89-93];
  • berth construction for, [99], [100];
  • vestibuled trains of, [106-111];
  • electric lighting in, [112-119];
  • heating of, by locomotive steam, [119];
  • how the cars are made, [123-129];
  • the first all-steel, [123ff.];
  • trucks for, [126];
  • fittings, [128];
  • operation of the, [133-158];
  • travel distances possible for, [136-139], [146];
  • tickets sold yearly, [140];
  • linen required for, [147-149];
  • other furnishings for, [149-151];
  • cleaning, [152-154];
  • the working force, [154];
  • the porters, [155]
• Pullman, George M., birth and early years, [24], [25];
  • first activities in Chicago, [26], [27];
  • first sleeping-car work, [28-32];
  • his first Pullman car, [32-34];
  • the second car, [40];
  • incorporates the Pullman Palace Car Company, [47];
  • his purpose, [48];
  • introduces the hotel car, [49];
  • the first dining car, [52];
  • visits England, [61];
  • installs his cars there, [62], [66-69];
  • establishes shop at Turin, [65];
  • puts vestibule trains in operation, [84];
  • locates new shops at Chicago, [89-93];
  • builds town of Pullman, [93-95];
  • his radical changes in berth construction, [99], [100];
  • introduces the dining car, [103-105];
  • invents the vestibule for trains, [106-110];
  • his vision and achievement, [135], [158];
  • president of the company till his death, [157]
• Pullman Palace Car Company, incorporated, [47];
  • establishes shops in Detroit, [57];
  • its business, [137], [140], [141];
  • list of directors and presidents, [157]
• Pullman, The Story of, quoted, [94], [95]
• Pullman, the town of, [89-95]

• Railroad Gazette, the, on electric lighting of trains, [113]
• Railroad restaurants, the oldtime service, [101-103]
• Railroad transportation, birth of, [1-15]
• Rails, the first iron, [4]
• Railway Review, the, describes vestibuled trains, [109], [110];
  • on trial of electric lighting in English trains, [116-118]
• Railways, the first in England, [4-7];
  • in America, [7-15];
  • change gauge to suit Pullman cars, [48]
• Reclining chair car, or parlor car, the first, [58]
• Repairs and repair shops, [146]
• Sleeping car, the evolution of the, [19-35];
  • the early, [22], [23], [99];
  • Mr. Pullman's first, [28-32];
  • rise of the industry, [39-58]

• Stagecoach, the English, [2-4], [6]
• Steel, the first all-, Pullman cars, [123ff.]
• Stephenson, George and Robert, and the first steam engines, [5], [7], [9]

• Trans-Continental, the paper published by Pullman car tourists in 1870, [54]
• Transportation, birth of railroad, [1-15]
• Trevithick, Richard, experiments with steam locomotive, [5]
• Trucks, the, used for Pullman cars, [126]
• "Twenty minutes for dinner," failure of the system of, [102], [103]

• Vanderbilts, back the Wagner car, [76], [77], [84], [85]
• Vestibule invented, [106], [107];
  • vestibuled trains in service, [109];
  • trial trip, [110];
  • welcomed in Mexico, [111]

• Wagner Palace Car Company, competitor of the Pullman Company, [76-79], [84];
  • loses to the Pullman Company, [85]
• Wagner, Webster, founder of the Wagner Palace Car Company, [76]
• Woodruff sleeping car, [81];
  • acquired by the Pullman Company, [83]