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Title: The story of the Pullman car
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Husband, Joseph, 1885-1938
Subjects: Pullman Company Sleeping cars (Railroads)
Publisher: Chicago, A. C. McClurg & co.
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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Modern cast-steel truck; six wheels with powerful springs totake up the jars and jolts of the road HOW THE CARS ARE MADE when the white-jacketed porters will open their doorsin welcome to their first passengers. Above the win-dows the word Pullman in dull gold will carrryfrom coast to coast the name of their founder.Below the windows is the name of the car, selectedusually with local significance in consideration ofthe lines over which that particular car will operate. In a corner of the great yards at a track endstands a little yellow car, smaller than many of ourinterurban trolley cars, the paint peeling from theboards that have seen the changing seasons of halfa century. It is old number 9, not the earliest,but one of the early Pullmans. Perhaps there arenights, when the roar of the machines is stilled, thatthe ghosts of a long-past day once again walk upand down the narrow aisles, strangers to the age ofsteel. (129T
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IXThe Operation of the Pullman Car CHAPTER IX THE OPERATION OF THE PULLMAN CAR ON the magic carpet of Bagdad the fortunatetravelers of a fabulous age were transportedto their destination, over valley, river, and moun-tain with a certainty and dispatch that has beenunparalleled in the annals of passenger transporta-tion. But the magic carpet, despite the generousmeasure of its service, seems to have been lost tofollowing generations, and only its reputation,doubtless somewhat amplified by the telling, remainsto set a high standard to succeeding transportationenterprises. Service is a much-used and a much-abused word.It has manifold significance. It may be a personalthing and carry the conscientious effort of indi-viduals eager to do for others ofBces which theydesire performed; it may be purely mechanical andconsist only in the provision of the ways andmeans to secure a desired end. It may be a com-bination of both; a system or organization instituted ( ^33 ) THE STORY OF THE PULLMAN C

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