S1 sleepers say Pullman?

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 David,
I on vacation this week and I am working from memory.  So I cannot site any publications to back-up what I am about to say.  But here goes.
Even though Budd built the car, the Pullman name indicates that they operated the car.
Pullman-Standard built sleeping cars at their factory and Pullman employees (porters) staffed the cars when they were in the consists of railroad passenger trains.
Pullman-Standard was not the only builder of sleeping cars.  The Budd Company and American Car Foundry were also builders.
Occasionally, railroads would purchase passenger cars from Budd or ACF and have Pullman porters staff them.  Obviously, Pullman-Standard resisted that arrangement and told the railroads, in no uncertain terms, that they would only staff cars that they had built.
This matter made its way to the federal government, which concluded that Pullman had a monopoly on the sleeping car business and gave Pullman a choice: they could build the sleeping cars or operate them, but not both.  Pullman chose to continue building sleeping cars and left the staffing to the railroads.
This was merely a paper exercise.  The various railroads bought Pullman's operating side.  In effect, the railroads now owned the sleeping cars.  To staff the sleeping cars, the railroads simply leased the cars to Pullman, who staffed the cars with Pullman porters.  In other words, to the railroad passenger, the arrangement between Pullman and railroads was exactly same as it was before the federal government declared that Pullman had a monopoly on the construction, ownership and operation of sleeping cars.
Since Pullman no longer owned the sleeping cars, no matter who built them, they could not balk about staffing sleeping cars built by Budd or ACF.
Around 1969, with the decline in passenger travel, Pullman completely got out of operating sleeping cars.  The railroads themselves now owned and staffed the sleeping cars.  The Pullman name was removed from the cars letterboard to be placed by the name of the railroad.  This happened on the N&W.  The Pullman name, in small lettering above the vestibules of N&W cars, was replaced with the very generic phrase "Sleeping Car."
Hope this helps.
Bill KingArlington, Virginia


    On Tuesday, August 5, 2025 at 07:18:57 AM EDT, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:   

 Hi society, I've been looking at photos of the S1.https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=17461I can't help but notice they say Pullman on them. I'm making a model of them, and I'm confused by that. Why do the Budd cars say Pullman on the top near the ends? I've just realized that there is probably something I don't know about here.David Baker________________________________________
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