That’s a gorgeous place to lounge and chat the journey away, but I bet it reeked of cigarettes.
ElGringoConSabor on
I’m sure it had quite an interesting smell
InspectorTemporary66 on
I could live there. Honestly. A toilet next door and the carriage as living space. Forever…that’s wonderful.
Heterodynist on
At my nonprofit organization, Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture in Northern California, we are restoring one of these! It won’t look as nice as this… Because we aren’t going to put in all the upholstery. However, I just wanted to say I can’t believe how well they put these cars together. This was just a mail car, but it had boards that were over 20 feet long! You can tell that the railroads also owned the sawmills! You never see boards that long…
Virginia-Ogden on
Reminds me of the attention to detail in great railway hotels of the same period. Proper craft, that.
ThreeLeggedMare on
Iirc this is called a gallery car
Kaleb8804 on
Everything there is made bespoke for that car right? It really was a different era.
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[https://www.nps.gov/pull/learn/historyculture/the-pullman-car-shops.htm](https://www.nps.gov/pull/learn/historyculture/the-pullman-car-shops.htm)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_(car_or_coach)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_(car_or_coach))
“This carriage is pimp af”
— some dude in 1890
this is so posh
That’s a gorgeous place to lounge and chat the journey away, but I bet it reeked of cigarettes.
I’m sure it had quite an interesting smell
I could live there. Honestly. A toilet next door and the carriage as living space. Forever…that’s wonderful.
At my nonprofit organization, Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture in Northern California, we are restoring one of these! It won’t look as nice as this… Because we aren’t going to put in all the upholstery. However, I just wanted to say I can’t believe how well they put these cars together. This was just a mail car, but it had boards that were over 20 feet long! You can tell that the railroads also owned the sawmills! You never see boards that long…
Reminds me of the attention to detail in great railway hotels of the same period. Proper craft, that.
Iirc this is called a gallery car
Everything there is made bespoke for that car right? It really was a different era.