| This Pullman heavyweight
sleeper is painted Pullman Green with ‘Empire Builder’logo and lettering
in metallic gold. It was built in 1910 by Pullman-Standard and runs on six wheel
passenger trucks. From 1910 through 1930 Pullman built well over 8,000 steel sleeping,
parlor and club/lounge cars. The introduction of the steel cars brought the end
of the luxurious, artisan-crafted and custom-designed wooden cars which had been
the rule since the 1880s. With the opening of the Pennsylvania Station in New
York in 1910 and the Grand Central Terminal in 1913, passenger safety in the tunnels
approaching these buildings demanded a more noncombustible material than wood. |
