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13 unusual facts about Pullman Company


Katy Easterday

From 1937 to 1942, he worked for Allegheny Ludlum Steel and from 1942 to 1959, Easterday was a safety supervisor at the Pullman-Standard Company in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Lebanon Mason Monroe Railroad

Four open-window commuter coaches built in 1930 by the Pullman Company in Chicago, and by the Harlan and Hollingsworth division of Bethlehem Shipbuilding for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W).

Pittsburgh Courier

Most significantly, the paper extensively covered the injustices on African-Americans perpetrated by the Pullman Company and supported the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

Potlatch, Idaho

The company developed and ran Potlatch on a model mostly patterned after that used by Pullman Company for its company town in Illinois.

Pullman automobile

The Pullman automobile was named by industrialist A. P. Broomell to reflect the quality and luxury of rail cars and coaches made by the Pullman Company, but the two organizations were not related.

Pullman F.C.

In 1893, the Pullman Company entered its newly created company soccer team as an inaugural member of the Chicago League of Association Football (CLAF).

Established in 1893 as the Pullman Company team, it was an inaugural member of the Chicago League of Association Football before moving to the Association Football League.

Pullman Strike

During a severe depression (the Panic of 1893), the Pullman Palace Car Company cut wages as demand for new passenger cars plummeted and the company's revenue dropped.

When the Pullman Company refused recognition of the ARU or any negotiations, ARU called a strike against the factory, but it showed no sign of success.

Trolleybuses in Valparaíso

Almost two-thirds of its vehicles were built in 1946–52 by the Pullman-Standard Company, and they are the oldest trolleybuses in regular service anywhere in the world.

For nearly 40 years, the fleet comprised solely Pullman-Standard trolleybuses, a combination of new-to-Valparaíso 1952-built Pullmans (the 700-series) and, from 1954 on, a number of ex-Santiago Pullmans, built in 1946–1948 (the 800-series).

W. D. Wright

His father, Charles Noble Wright, worked as a riveter for the Pullman Train Company.

William Seward Webb

The Wagner Palace Car Company was subsequently merged with the Pullman Company.


GWR Super Saloons

Built to the maximum loading gauge to be more opulent than the rival Pullman Company coaches offered by rival railway companies, and all named after members of the British Royal Family, their success was short lived due to the onset of the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Lounge car

The cars were often operated by the Pullman Company, and in other cases by the railroad directly as part of the dining car department (on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway the Fred Harvey Company manned the food concession).

Martin P. Blomberg

From 1925 to 1935, Blomberg worked for the Pullman Company, where he was responsible for the construction of railroad truck frames and passenger car bodies.