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Pullman sleeping car, original to the William Crooks locomotive, on display in Duluth, Minnesota. The sleeping car or sleeper (often wagon-lit) is a railway passenger car that can accommodate all passengers in beds of one kind or another, for the purpose of sleeping. George Pullman was the American innovator of the sleeper car. [citation needed]
Theodore Tuttle Woodruff was born in Jefferson County, New York on April 8, 1811. [1]He married Eliza Lord Hemenway on July 25, 1833, and they had two children. [1]On December 2, 1856, Woodruff received two patents for a convertible car seat, which led to his invention of the sleeping car for railroads.
After serving as an employee for the New York Central Railroad, Wagner invented the sleeping car and luxurious parlor car. He also perfected a system of ventilating railroad cars. His inventions were first used on the NY Central and later spread to other lines. He founded the Wagner Palace Car Company, located in Buffalo, New York.
The sleeping cars proved successful although each cost more than five times the price of a regular railway car. They were marketed as "luxury for the middle class". In 1867, Pullman introduced his first "hotel on wheels," the President , a sleeper with an attached kitchen and dining car.
Pullman is the term for railroad dining cars, lounge cars, and especially sleeping cars that were built and operated by the Pullman Company (founded by George Pullman) from 1867 to December 31, 1968. Railway dining cars in the U.S. and Europe were operated by the Pullman Company; lounge cars were operated by the Compagnie Internationale des ...
The car has been in several movies including Eight Men Out, where baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis is seen riding away in the car. It is also seen in the movie Lost in Yonkers, there are some good interior shots of the car, Pullman's first all-steel car, the Jamestown, was built in 1907. It proved the merits of steel construction ...
A porter is shown vacuuming the carpet in a Great Northern Railway parlor car, circa 1910. Porters serving in a dining car, circa 1927. A porter was expected to greet passengers, carry baggage, make up the sleeping berths, serve food and drinks brought from the dining car, shine shoes, and keep the cars tidy.
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