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TRAVEL BY PULLMAN: A CENTURY OF SERVICE
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Welsh/Howes, 2004, Motorbooks, 156p, HD.
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This nostalgic look back at what was essentially a rolling hotel company contracted by the nations railroads to provide guest accommodations, covers every aspect of Pullman operations, from the emerging popularity of steam-powered rail travel in the early twentieth century to its diesel-powered zenith and its eventual nadir in the 1950s and 1960s.
Pullmans entire complex network of employees and services is featured, from the ticket offices that manually handled millions of reservations each year to the six car shops spread across the nation to perform heavy maintenance and repairs, and all of Pullmans porters, mechanics, cleaners, electricians, cooks, barbers, shoeshiners, and more.
Illustrated with both black-and-white and color period views depicting Pullman interiors and facilities, as well as memorabilia and sales literature.
Reviewed in: National Railway Bulletin Vol. 70, Spring 2005, NRHS, page 45.
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