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Pullman (car or coach)

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Passenger car built or operated by the Pullman Company
Pullman VRIC7 rail car sponsored byKitchi Gammi Club

Pullman is the term for railroaddining cars,lounge cars, and especiallysleeping cars that were built and operated by thePullman Company (founded byGeorge Pullman) from 1867 to December 31, 1968.

Railwaydining cars in the U.S. and Europe were operated by the Pullman Company;lounge cars were operated by theCompagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits in France, and theBritish Pullman Car Company inGreat Britain.

Other uses

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  • The nicknamePullman 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,romanizedpul'manovsky vagon) ran inKyiv from 1907[1][2] and inOdessa from 1912.[3]
  • In the 1920s, tramcars nicknamedPullmanwagen in German ran in Leipzig, Cologne, Frankfurt and Zürich.[4]
Mercedes-Benz 600 "Pullman" limousine, carrying US President Carter in Liberia, 1978

Gallery

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  • The first Pullman sleeping car
    The first Pullman sleeping car
  • Lettering blueprint for Pullman sleeping car
    Lettering blueprint for Pullman sleeping car
  • Former Brighton Belle Pullman carriage at London Victoria, now part of the Venice-Simplon Orient Express fleet
    Former Brighton Belle Pullman carriage at London Victoria, now part of theVenice-Simplon Orient Express fleet
  • "Pullman" tramcar in Kyiv, 1930
    "Pullman" tramcar inKyiv, 1930
  • A Pullman bus of the Nairn Transport Company for the Damascus–Baghdad service
    A Pullman bus of theNairn Transport Company for the Damascus–Baghdad service

See also

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Citations

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  1. ^Stefan Mashkevich.Pullman, the first four-axle car in Kyiv
  2. ^Ю.Ю. Струк (ред.). Киевский трамвай за сорок лет (1892–1932). Киевский коммунальный трамвайный трест, 1933, p.63 (in Russian)
  3. ^История Одесского трамвая (in Russian)
  4. ^Hans Bodmer.Das Tram in Zürich, 1928 bis 1962. p. 11 (in German)

General and cited references

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

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