Pete Thornton said:
There’s a guy on FB selling an Aristo 3-truck (?) heavyweight coach which he describes as a NYC Pullman. It is green and named ‘Star Point’. I was looking at it and realized I had no idea whether it was a NYC coach or not.
My understanding is that Pullman supplied coaches painted in Pullman Green to several railroads, not just NY Central?
Did those coaches travel in a train of other coaches, painted for the regular railroad - i.e. would you see a couple of green Pullman Sleepers in the middle of a Milwaukee Road consist?
Where would I find answers to these obscure questions?
1…Yes it was
2…Yes they certainly did
3…Yes depending on the need
4…On Wikipedia which starts off with my history bitch the CVRR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_car
Pullman cars were normally a dark “Pullman green”, although some were painted in the host railroad’s colors. The cars carried individual names, but usually did not carry visible numbers. In the 1920s, the Pullman Company went through a series of restructuring steps, which in the end resulted in a parent company, Pullman Incorporated, controlling the Pullman Company (which owned and operated sleeping cars) and the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company. Due to an antitrust verdict in 1947, a consortium of railroads bought the Pullman Company from Pullman Incorporated, and subsequently railroads owned and operated Pullman-made sleeping cars themselves. Pullman-Standard continued manufacturing sleeping cars and other passenger and freight railroad cars until 1980.
Thank you for peaking my interest and making me dig further. You can copy my homework for this evening but the teacher might find out and then we would both be in trouble!
