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

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