The story of the Pullman car . Early passenger cars, designed after the then prevalent type ofhorse coach. These cars were part of the train that ran on the for-mal opening of the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad (the first Unk ofthe New York Central System) on July S, 1831. inclined plane division from the top of one hill tothe top of another. Three years later a prize of $4,000 was offeredby the Baltimore & Ohio Company for an Americanengine, and the following year a locomotive con-structed by Davis and Gastner won the award bydrawing fifteen tons at the rate of fifteen miles anhour. In 1832, Matthi
The story of the Pullman car . Early passenger cars, designed after the then prevalent type ofhorse coach. These cars were part of the train that ran on the for-mal opening of the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad (the first Unk ofthe New York Central System) on July S, 1831. inclined plane division from the top of one hill tothe top of another. Three years later a prize of $4,000 was offeredby the Baltimore & Ohio Company for an Americanengine, and the following year a locomotive con-structed by Davis and Gastner won the award bydrawing fifteen tons at the rate of fifteen miles anhour. In 1832, Matthias W. Baldwin, founder of [] Digitized by Microsoft® THE STORY OF THE PULLMAN CAR the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia,designed his first locomotive, Old Ironsides, forthe Philadelphia, Germantown & Morristown Rail-road; and soon after his second locomotive, the One of the first important improvements made by America inpassenger cars was the introduction of the bogie, or truck; theshort curves of the American roads compelling the abandonment ofthe English type of four-wheeled car with rigid axles. The illustra-tion shows a bogie car used on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroadin 183S. L. Miller, was put in service on the South CarolinaRailroad. The first passenger service to be put in regularoperation in America must be credited to the Charles-ton & Hamburg Railroad in the late fall of 1830. [12] Digitized by Microsoft® BIRTH OF RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION The following year construction was begun on theBoston & Lowell Railroad, and in the same year apassenger train, previously mentioned, was put inservice between Albany and Schenectady on the newMohawk & Hudson Railroad. The journal of Samuel Breck of Boston, affordsan interesting glimpse of the conditions of contem-porary railroad travel: July 22, 1835. This morning at nine oclock I t
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