Pullman Company (redirect from Pullman Sleeping Car Company) Chicago. Pullman developed the sleeping car, which carried his name into the 1980s. Pullman did not just manufacture the cars, it also operated them on most... 45 KB (4,940 words) - 01:32, 4 April 2024 |
Starlight Express (redirect from Belle the Sleeping Car) 1st class sleeping car from the U.S.A. (designated as a Pullman car in 1984, cut from all productions after Broadway) Duvay the Sleeping Car (replaced... 66 KB (7,177 words) - 13:12, 1 May 2024 |
British Rail Mark 1 (redirect from British Railways Mark 1 sleeping car) contractors built the British Railways Mark 1 sleeping car between 1957 and 1964. Three hundred and eighty cars of three different types were built, with... 32 KB (4,038 words) - 13:41, 17 January 2024 |
Pullman is the term for railroad sleeping cars that were built and operated by the Pullman Company (founded by George Pullman) from 1867 to December 31... 5 KB (465 words) - 08:22, 2 May 2024 |
The Sleeping Car Porter is a novel by Canadian writer Suzette Mayr, published in August 2022 by Coach House Books. Set in the 1920s, the novel centres... 9 KB (881 words) - 08:48, 19 January 2024 |
railroad car that is designed to carry passengers. The term passenger car can also be associated with a sleeping car, a baggage car, a dining car, railway... 46 KB (6,057 words) - 17:25, 13 May 2024 |
since 26 March 2016. The name was formerly used for a limited express sleeping car service operated by JR Kyushu, which ran from Tokyo to Kumamoto, and... 12 KB (1,047 words) - 17:55, 15 April 2024 |
The Sleeping Car Murders (also known as The Sleeping Car Murder, French title: Compartiment tueurs) is a 1965 French mystery film directed by Costa-Gavras... 10 KB (1,269 words) - 03:44, 7 May 2024 |
Sleeping Car to Trieste is a 1948 British comedy thriller film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Jean Kent, Albert Lieven, Derrick De Marney... 7 KB (738 words) - 21:43, 4 February 2024 |
The Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George" (SPCSCPG) was founded as a joke by lumber baron George W. Dulany in 1914. Membership... 4 KB (397 words) - 20:12, 6 May 2024 |
Superliner (railcar) (redirect from Superliner (rail car)) The Superliner I cars were the last passenger cars built by Pullman. Car types include coaches, dining cars, lounges, and sleeping cars. Most passenger... 62 KB (6,065 words) - 23:59, 19 April 2024 |
porters on sleeping cars. Starting shortly after the American Civil War, George Pullman sought out former slaves to work on his sleeper cars. Their job... 40 KB (4,572 words) - 19:13, 3 April 2024 |
Viewliner (category Rail passenger cars of the United States) car type operated by Amtrak on most long-distance routes operating east of Chicago. The first production cars, consisting of an order of 50 sleeping cars... 23 KB (2,196 words) - 00:23, 8 April 2024 |
"Sleeping in My Car" is a song by Swedish pop music duo Roxette, released on 7 March 1994 by EMI as the lead single from the duo's fifth studio album,... 22 KB (2,196 words) - 03:03, 19 December 2023 |
consist as having fourteen cars normally assigned: nine sleeping cars between New York and Chicago, one additional sleeping car from New York continuing... 16 KB (1,711 words) - 05:56, 11 May 2024 |
A couchette car is a railway carriage conveying non or semi-private sleeping accommodation. The car is divided into a number of compartments (typically... 4 KB (535 words) - 16:42, 21 February 2024 |
George Pullman (section Pullman sleeping car) engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town in Chicago for the workers who manufactured... 24 KB (2,986 words) - 05:42, 10 May 2024 |
In the early hours of 6 July 1978, a fire broke out in a sleeping car train near Taunton, Somerset, England. 12 people were killed and 15 were injured... 9 KB (924 words) - 17:16, 19 April 2023 |
Madonna of the Sleeping Cars (French:La madone des sleepings) may refer to Madonna of the Sleeping Cars (novel), a 1925 novel by Maurice Dekobra Madonna... 535 bytes (94 words) - 16:42, 15 December 2021 |
A sleeping berth is a bed or sleeping accommodation on vehicles. Space accommodations have contributed to certain common design elements of berths. While... 7 KB (847 words) - 23:26, 20 January 2024 |
Kyushu Shinkansen. The name was formerly used for a limited express sleeping car service operated by JNR from 1961, which ran from Tokyo to Kumamoto,... 11 KB (885 words) - 19:29, 27 March 2024 |
City Night Line (section Sleeping cars) the newer Comfortline cars. The compartments had "normal" beds. Bathroom in sleeping car (Comfortline Deluxe) Beds in a sleeping car (with child's safety... 14 KB (1,540 words) - 15:58, 25 December 2023 |
Sakura (train service) (section N700 series (8 cars)) Sakura sleeping car service commenced on 20 July 1959 using 20 series sleeping cars. From March 1972, the train was upgraded with 14 series sleeping cars. From... 9 KB (654 words) - 20:17, 20 March 2024 |
intended as a catalogue of sleeping carriages used by the Victorian Railways and successors. In 1886, delivery was taken of four sleeping carriages built by the... 1 KB (4,782 words) - 23:07, 12 November 2019 |
Seven Stars in Kyushu (ななつ星in九州, Nanatsuboshi in Kyūshū) is a deluxe sleeping car excursion train operated by Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) in Japan... 13 KB (946 words) - 16:31, 26 March 2024 |
The Order of Sleeping Car Conductors (OSCC) was a labor union that represented white sleeping car conductors in the United States and Canada between 1918... 9 KB (1,046 words) - 18:54, 25 September 2021 |