The Story of the Pullman Car
Author | : Joseph Husband |
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Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Pullman cars |
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Author | : Joseph Husband |
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Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Pullman cars |
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Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Railroad cars |
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Author | : Peter T. Maiken |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Locomotives |
ISBN | : 9780801845031 |
Forty years ago, it was the way to travel. Back then, one could climb between crisp linens and soft blankets, adjust the oversized pillows, and watch America speed by in the night. With more than 300 photographs and 50 maps, Night Trains is a lively account of the Pullman enterprise during the golden years of its operation--from 1920 to 1955--when the remarkable sleeping car system routinely played host to more than 50,000 guests nightly. "A compelling tribute to a bygone time when getting there was half the fun... An education for the young and a scrapbook for those who remember." -- Herald-Dispatch
Author | : Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company |
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Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 19?? |
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Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : American periodicals |
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Author | : Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company |
Publisher | : Chicago: [Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company], 19 |
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Release | : 1936 |
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Author | : O. M. Kerr |
Publisher | : Delta Publication |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Transportation |
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200 Selected representative principally builders photographs of railway passenger cars for the major railways.
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Total Pages | : 836 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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Author | : Lucius Beebe |
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Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Dining cars |
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"The evidence is overwhelming that George M. Pullman was, in his day, the foremost prophet of the good life and loomed largest among the opulent carbuilders in the general imagination. In the long light of history Pullman will be remembered as the man who put the American people on wheels, and also as the greatest single agency in the spread and appreciation of luxury on an almost universal scale. At the height of his fabulous career, George Pullman could boast that his guests occupid 260,000 beds every night in the year and that the total registration in his guest book came to 26,000,000 every twelve months. He maintained clerks at 2,950 registration desks for the sole purpose of assigning guests to room and dormitory space."--Inside cover of jacket
Author | : Jack Kelly |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2019-01-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1250128862 |
"Timely and urgent...The core of The Edge of Anarchy is a thrilling description of the boycott of Pullman cars and equipment by Eugene Debs’s fledgling American Railway Union..." —The New York Times "During the summer of 1894, the stubborn and irascible Pullman became a central player in what the New York Times called “the greatest battle between labor and capital [ever] inaugurated in the United States.” Jack Kelly tells the fascinating tale of that terrible struggle." —The Wall Street Journal "Pay attention, because The Edge of Anarchy not only captures the flickering Kinetoscopic spirit of one of the great Labor-Capital showdowns in American history, it helps focus today’s great debates over the power of economic concentration and the rights and futures of American workers." —Brian Alexander, author of Glass House "In gripping detail, The Edge of Anarchy reminds us of what a pivotal figure Eugene V. Debs was in the history of American labor... a tale of courage and the steadfast pursuit of principles at great personal risk." —Tom Clavin, New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for America. The Edge of Anarchy by Jack Kelly offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history. At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill across much of the country. Famine threatened, riots broke out along the rail lines. Soon the U.S. Army was on the march and gunfire rang from the streets of major cities. This epochal tale offers fascinating portraits of two iconic characters of the age. George Pullman, who amassed a fortune by making train travel a pleasure, thought the model town that he built for his workers would erase urban squalor. Eugene Debs, founder of the nation’s first industrial union, was determined to wrench power away from the reigning plutocrats. The clash between the two men’s conflicting ideals pushed the country to what the U.S. Attorney General called “the ragged edge of anarchy.” Many of the themes of The Edge of Anarchy could be taken from today’s headlines—upheaval in America’s industrial heartland, wage stagnation, breakneck technological change, and festering conflict over race, immigration, and inequality. With the country now in a New Gilded Age, this look back at the violent conflict of an earlier era offers illuminating perspectives along with a breathtaking story of a nation on the edge.