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Pullman (car or coach)

Pullman (car or coach)

Passenger car built or operated by Pullman Company


Pullman is the term for railroad sleeping cars that were built and operated by the Pullman Company (founded by George Pullman) from 1867 to December 31, 1968.

Pullman VRIC7 rail car sponsored by Kitchi Gammi Club

The term also refers to railway dining cars in the U.S. and Europe that were operated by the Pullman Company, as well as lounge cars operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits in France, and the British Pullman Car Company in Great Britain.

Other uses

  • The nickname Pullman coach was used in some European cities for the first long (four-axle) electric tramcars whose appearance resembled the Pullman railway cars and that were usually more comfortable than their predecessors. Such coaches (Russian: пульмановский вагон, romanized: pul'manovsky vagon) ran in Kyiv from 1907[1][2] and in Odessa from 1912.[3]
  • In the 1920s, tramcars nicknamed Pullmanwagen in German ran in Leipzig, Cologne, Frankfurt and Zürich.[4]
Mercedes-Benz 600 "Pullman" limousine, carrying US President Carter in Liberia, 1978
  • In some Western European countries in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, some especially luxurious motor coaches were sometimes referred to as Auto-Pullmans.
  • In Greek and Italian, the word "pullman" is used to refer to a coach bus. In Greek, it would be spelled "πούλμαν".
  • In Latin America, pullman may refer to a luxury bus as well as to a railroad sleeping car.
  • A Pullman loaf is a type of long, square bread originally developed to be baked in the small kitchens of Pullman rail cars.

See also


Notes

  1. Ю.Ю. Струк (ред.). Киевский трамвай за сорок лет (1892–1932). Киевский коммунальный трамвайный трест, 1933, p. 63 (in Russian)
  2. Hans Bodmer. Das Tram in Zürich, 1928 bis 1962. p. 11 (in German)

References

  • Welsh, Joe; Bill Howes (2004). Travel by Pullman: a century of service. Saint Paul, MN: MBI. ISBN 0760318573. OCLC 56634363.
  • Barger, Ralph L. (1988). A Century of Pullman Cars, Volume I, Alphabetical List. Greenberg Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Barger, Ralph L. (1990). A Century of Pullman Cars, Volume II, The Palace Cars. Greenberg Publishing Company, Inc.

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