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Abraham Lincoln (Pullman car)
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help| The Abraham Lincoln is the oldest operable passenger car in the United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1910, with Robert Todd Lincoln as the company president, the Pullman Car Company suddenly changed from the 60 foot varnished wood railroad cars to the 80 foot, riveted-steel design. The new technology of the time was electric lighting, so the new cars required... Read enhanced Wikipedia article |
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Abraham Lincoln (Pullman car)
The Abraham Lincoln is the oldest operable passenger car in the United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. -
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Pullman Company
A 1910 Pullman car which served as the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Business Car No. 101, now restored as the Abraham Lincoln. -
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Passenger car (rail)
The interior of a Pullman car on the Chicago and Alton Railroad circa 1900. ... The Abraham Lincoln 1910 Heavyweight Pullman Business Car -
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Sleeping car
Each Pullman car was staffed by a uniformed porter. ... The Abraham Lincoln 1910 Heavyweight Pullman Business Car — photographs and short history. -
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George Pullman
He is known as the inventor of the Pullman sleeping car, and for violently suppressing striking workers in the company town he created, Pullman, Chicago. ... By arranging to have the body of President Abraham Lincoln carried from Washington, D.C. to Springfield on a sleeper, he received national attention and the orders began to pour in. -
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Robert Todd Lincoln
Counsel, President and Chairman of the Pullman Palace Car Company ... Abraham Lincoln -
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Rail transport in the United States
Authorized by the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 and heavily backed by the federal government, it was the culmination of a decades-long movement to build such a line and was one of the crowning achievements of the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, completed four years after his death. ... The interior of a Pullman car on the Chicago and Alton Railroad, circa 1900. -
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Ferdinand Magellan Railcar
The Ferdinand Magellan traveled at the end of a special train that included Pullman sleeping cars for staff, baggage cars and a communications car operated by the Army Signal Corps. ... ↑ Abraham Lincoln's funeral car -
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Abraham Lincoln ... Pullman Palace Car Company
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