Forty years ago, night trains were the way to travel. A New York businessman would book a berth on the Nickel Plate Limited to be in Cleveland for a morning meeting. A family would reserve a suite on the Santa Fe Chief to tour through the West on vacation. Back then, one could climb between crisp linens and soft blankets, adjust the oversized pillows, and watch America speed by in the night. In its heyday, the Pullman Company's remarkable sleeping car system routinely played host to more than 50,000 guests nightly. "Night ...
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Forty years ago, night trains were the way to travel. A New York businessman would book a berth on the Nickel Plate Limited to be in Cleveland for a morning meeting. A family would reserve a suite on the Santa Fe Chief to tour through the West on vacation. Back then, one could climb between crisp linens and soft blankets, adjust the oversized pillows, and watch America speed by in the night. In its heyday, the Pullman Company's remarkable sleeping car system routinely played host to more than 50,000 guests nightly. "Night Trains" is an account of the Pullman enterprise during the golden years of its operation, from 1920 to 1955. With more than 300 photographs and 50 maps, the book offers a state-by-state look at the Pullman operations, giving a brief history of the routes, the terminals, and the trains. A concluding section pinpoints the locations of all the sleeping cars in the United States, along with those on international runs to Canada and Mexico, on a hypothetical midnight in March 1952.
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