. Revised and enlarged ed. of the science of railways . Poultry Car. thing still more exclusive is desired, the travelermay hire a private car for his exclusive use. Theprice charged is not excessive when it is remem-bered that this is one of the greatest luxurieswealth or position can command. The immense distances traversed in Americasuggested the idea of the sleeping car. It is saidto have been first introduced in a rude way onthe Cumberland Valley road in 1886. The cai-w as divided into four sections by transverse par-titions. Each section contained three narrow 190 RAIL ^yA Y
. Revised and enlarged ed. of the science of railways . Poultry Car. thing still more exclusive is desired, the travelermay hire a private car for his exclusive use. Theprice charged is not excessive when it is remem-bered that this is one of the greatest luxurieswealth or position can command. The immense distances traversed in Americasuggested the idea of the sleeping car. It is saidto have been first introduced in a rude way onthe Cumberland Valley road in 1886. The cai-w as divided into four sections by transverse par-titions. Each section contained three narrow 190 RAIL ^yA Y Peloponnesus Railroad (Greece)Car for Small Cattle. Length, II in.: height of sides. G ft.,5 in.; weight, 4H tons; loud, 8tons. berths, one above theother, and it was a matterof not infrequent occur-rence for the traveler oc-cupying the upper berthto be hurled out of his bedas the train passed aroundsome unusually sharpcurve. Afterward, whenthe sleeping car had been perfected, the upper berth continued to be asource of anxiety, as it sometimes closed upunexpectedly on the traveler, thus smotheringhim in his bed. This defect has, however, nowbeen remedied. Some of the experiments with the sleeping cartook the direction of fitting up berths similar tothose on steamboats, but as no bedding, save a coarse mattress and pil-low, were supplied, it didnot meet with 1838, rude sleeping carswere put on the line be-tween Philadelphia andBaltimore. They are thusreferred to by the Balti-more Chronicle in its issueof October 31,1838: Carsintended for night travel-and Philadelphia
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