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Joseph Husband. The Story of the Pullman Car
The Story of the Pullman Car
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I. THE BIRTH OF RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION
CHAPTER II. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SLEEPING CAR
CHAPTER III. THE RISE OF A GREAT INDUSTRY
CHAPTER IV. THE PULLMAN CAR IN EUROPE
CHAPTER V. THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
CHAPTER VI. THE TOWN OF PULLMAN
CHAPTER VII. INVENTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS
CHAPTER VIII. HOW THE CARS ARE MADE
CHAPTER IX. THE OPERATION OF THE PULLMAN CAR
INDEX
Footnotes
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Joseph Husband
Published by Good Press, 2019
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One of the first important improvements made by America in passenger cars was the introduction of the "bogie," or truck; the short curves of the American roads compelling the abandonment of the English type of four-wheeled car with rigid axles. The illustration shows a "bogie" car used on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1835.
The first passenger service to be put in regular operation in America must be credited to the Charleston & Hamburg Railroad in the late fall of 1830. The following year construction was begun on the Boston & Lowell Railroad, and in the same year a passenger train, previously mentioned, was put in service between Albany and Schenectady on the new Mohawk & Hudson Railroad.
