What you could expect for breakfast lunch and dinner in a Pullman full service Cafe Parlor car

  

a famous opera singer traveling America in her own Pullman Palace Car, perhaps one of the most elegantly decorated, described below (anyone got pictures?)

Apart from the great legend of her voice, Adelina Patti was a very much larger-than-life character ... and a very astute business woman, she traveled the global for her work. But such travel then had it's hazards - not the least being the assurance of payment of a fee after a performance. For Patti, $5000 a night at the height of her powers.The diva's solution was was novel and affective - that

Boudoir cars and palace cars, the luxury travel of the 1870's -1920's

Woodruff's Silver Palace Sleeping Car, built by the Harlan and Hollingworth Company of Wilmington Delaware, for the Central Pacific Railroad of California in 1869from the book  The American Railroad Passenger Car  By John H. White, Jr

Great variety of old advertising from QuestionableAdvice.tumblr.com (Centuries of Advertisements and Advice)

It's like Shorpy for advertisements! Very cool collection, enjoy more at http://questionableadvice.tumblr.com/

the Pullman Railplane of 1933, self propelled, designed by Stout (of the Stout Scarab)

Feeling the effects of the Depression and declining business, America's railroads (in the 1930s) were looking for ways to reinvigorate passenger travel. As Ralph Budd, president of the Chicago Burlington & Quincy, later explained, railroads had to continue running trains on short routes to handle mail and baggage "whether or not anyone rides the trains." After seeing GM's powerful diesel engines,

Interiors of the rare luxury Pullman Palace, Parlor, sleeper and observation cars

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The space saving turntable (moves side to side, doesn't turn) at the Pullman factory in 1911

I've posted photos of it moving railcars around in this post, the 3rd and 4th photos : http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/07/pullman-baggage-and-mail-cars-1889-1909.htmlphotos found on http://csrrm.crewnoble.com/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=NEXT_BLOCK&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=http%3A%2F%2Fcsrrm.crewnoble.com%2FSearchPullmanAll_Images.htm&TN=Pullman&SN=AUTO9939&SE=807&RN=30&MR=30&TR=0&TX

Vintage photos of the Clara B Stocker railcar, compared to the gallery I took this March

for the gallery I just took: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/05/private-pullman-palace-railcar-century.htmland for the gallery Tere (JustaCarGal) took:http://justacargal-s.blogspot.com/2011/03/nethercutt-museum-train.html

Pullman baggage and mail cars, 1889 - 1909

Just some of the Pullman photos from http://csrrm.crewnoble.com/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?BU=http%3A%2F%2Fcsrrm.crewnoble.com%2FSearchPullmanAll_Images.htm&QF0=ImageName&QI0=*&MR=30&TN=Pullman&RF=WebDisplay&AC=QBE_QUERYthanks to Mary D who is writing a book about a young woman and her escapades running away from home with her families Pullman palace car (if I recall correctly) and doing a ton of