The story of the Pullman car . the call on in his office on Nassau Street and refers tothe office as probably the finest in New York,beautiful with paintings and statuary, and enlivenedwith the singing of birds. Following the Western World, the hotelcars were promptly put in service and regularthrough service was established between Chicagoand eastern points. The new City of Bostonand City of New York surpassed even theWestern World in magnificence and were popu-larly reported to have exceeded $30,000 each incost. These cars were known as hotel cars forthe reason that each contained
The story of the Pullman car . the call on in his office on Nassau Street and refers tothe office as probably the finest in New York,beautiful with paintings and statuary, and enlivenedwith the singing of birds. Following the Western World, the hotelcars were promptly put in service and regularthrough service was established between Chicagoand eastern points. The new City of Bostonand City of New York surpassed even theWestern World in magnificence and were popu-larly reported to have exceeded $30,000 each incost. These cars were known as hotel cars forthe reason that each contained all the requirementsfor a protracted journey. The main body of thecar was occupied by the berths and seats and at oneend a kitchen and pantry provided the culinaryservice. The dining car, devoted entirely to restau-rant purposes, was a second step which soon fol-lowed. The first dining car personally designedby Mr. Pullman was named the Delmonico,and was operated on the Chicago & Alton in1868. [52] Digitized by Microsoft®. One of the first Pullman cars in which meals were served Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® RISE OF A GREAT INDUSTRY But it was in 1869 that the Pullman car madeperhaps its greatest advance in the interest and con-fidence of the public for in that year the UnionPacific, building westward from the Missouri Riverat Omaha, met the Central Pacific, which built fromSan Francisco eastward. By their union a line wasestablished between the two coasts of the continent,a slender thread of track which stretched for 1,848miles through a practically uninhabited simultaneously with the completion of theroad there was put upon the rails one of the mostsuperb trains ever turned out of the Pullman journey to Califofnia and its reception there werein the nature of a progressive ovation. From thattime forth the great population of the Pacific coastknew no train for long distance travel save a Pull-man train, and would hear of no other. W
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