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The Rise of the Pullman Porter Pullman hired recently freed slaves to work as porters on his cars, serving as friendly faces and all-around helpmates for passengers. They became an iconic part of the luxury-car experience for decades, and Pullman became the country's biggest employer of African-Americans. Here: Pullman porter Harry Lucas prepares President Franklin D. Roosevelt's private car on his trip to Warm Springs, Ga., in 1938.
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A bed in the luxury Pullman sleeping car awaits a sleeper. The curtains were drawn for privacy.
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Snug as a Bug in a Rug A man prepares his bed in a saloon car in 1908. Early sleeper cars featured beds that were also seats when not pulled out.
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Pullman's new sleeper car got a huge boost from an American tragedy: When President Abraham Lincoln's body was taken from Washington, D.C., to Springfield, Ill., the casket lay in a Pullman. Orders for sleeper cars skyrocketed. Here: Arrivals from the Baltics arrive in Melbourne, Australia, by ship and then train.
The luxury train's story began with George Pullman, the Brooklyn-born entrepreneur who helped reengineer Chicago's sewer system. Pullman struck upon the idea of adding sleeping cars to trains after an uncomfortable night trying to catch Zs in the seat of a train in New York state. Here: Passengers relax on an American saloon car in the 1940s.
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