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Night Trains Pullman System Peter Maiken In the Golden years of America Rail Tra
Night Trains Pullman System By Peter Maiken The Pullman System in the Golden years of American Rail Travel
415 Pages
Copyright 1989
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Hard Cover with DUST JACKET The Pullman System in the Golden years of American Rail Travel
TABLE OF CONTENTS
4 List of Abbreviations
5 Index of Maps
6 Preface
8 The Pullman Enterprise 12 New England
22 Going to Chicago 30 New York City
38 New York State
45 New Jersey
48 Pennsylvania
56 Maryland/Delaware
60 District of Columbia
68 Ohio
78 Indiana
84 Michigan
92 West Virginia
96 Kentucky
102 Tennessee
108 Virginia
116 North Carolina
122 South Carolina
126 Georgia
132 Florida
138 Going to Florida
145 Alabama
150 Mississippi
154 Louisiana
159 Illinois
165 Chicago
174 Going to California
188 Iowa
192 Nebraska
196 Wyoming
199 Utah
204 Colorado
213 Nevada
216 California
228 Missouri
238 Kansas
242 Arkansas
245 Oklahoma
250 Texas
258 New Mexico
261 Arizona
264 West by Northwest
269 Wisconsin
276 Minnesota
282 North Dakota
284 Montana
290 Idaho
292 Washington
298 South Dakota
301 Oregon
306 The Transcontinentals
312 Midnight Sleepers
406 Bibliography
409 Index
Before anyone heard of the airports called O'Hare, LaGuardia or LAX, America had a wonderful system of hotels that moved through the night. Every night, in all kinds of weather, this "chain" of hotels carried tens of thousands of passengers to their business and holiday destinations in comfort and safety. This was the remarkable enterprise that proudly carried the name Pullman.
Night Trains is the story of this overnight operation of sleeping cars that carried enough people between just New York City and Chicago alone to fill two Conrad Hilton hotels. Night Mains explores the "where" of Pullman scheduling, examining first-class rail travel in America as an entire system and showing how it all came together. Its principal time frame is 1920-55.
How did Pullmans play in Peoria? Very well, thanks-you could book a berth to Illinois's then-Second City from thirteen places, including Denver and New York City. Snowbirds flocked to Florida from at least forty-three communities that had their own sleepers to the Sunshine State, including Wichita, West Yellowstone, Mont.. Quebec-even Los Angeles. Pullman sleepers seemingly went everywhere, to Keunebunkport and Key West, San Diego and Seattle.
Night Trains surveys the golden years of sleeping car travel, from blue-ribbon thoroughbreds like the Twentieth Century limited, the Bar Harbor Express, and Sunshine Special to the nameless, newspaper trains that carried the sleepers to small-town America. It tells of Pullman trains that transferred their passengers to flying boats or Ford Trimotors every morning, and interurbans with sleeping cars that rode through the night under electric trolley wire.
Organized by region and state, Night Trains offers historical sketches of the major railroads, their most prominent passenger lines, and the great trains that traveled those rails, as well as an enumeration of dedicated sleeping car service to and from communities within each state. Always, it is written with local interest in mind.
A detailed, illustrated appendix depicts the entire Pullman sleeping car system as it existed on a typical midnight at the height of the streamliner era, when more than 50 railroads were moving or interchanging more than 1,000 cars. This section "freezes" every Pullman-carrying train in the country, showing where it was, what sleeping cars were in its consist, how and whence they came, and how and where they were going.
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