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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">David,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Even though Budd built the car, the Pullman name indicates that they operated the car.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Pullman-Standard was not the only builder of sleeping cars. The Budd Company and American Car Foundry were also builders.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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."</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hope this helps.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Bill King</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Arlington, Virginia</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, August 5, 2025 at 07:18:57 AM EDT, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpf97ec60cyiv2316945491"><div>Hi society, <div>I've been looking at photos of the S1.</div><div><a href="https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=17461" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=17461</a></div><div>I 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.</div><div>David Baker</div></div>
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