Saturday, June 25, 2011

Pullman train cars, the epitome of luxury Palace Cars, Superliners (284 of these), sleeping cars and passenger train cars, 1859-1981



When the legendary director Cecil B. DeMille first saw the baroque interior, he supposedly said, "Tell the madame I'll have a drink, but I'm too old to go upstairs."

Original owners of Pullman Palacecars were EF Hutton, and the Vanderbilt's had at least 3 of them, Harry, Willie, and Alice had one of their own... cattle barons bought them too.
The most famous stock holders of the Pullman company were JJ Astor, Ellen Banker, Chauncey Depew, Jay Gould, Julia Grant, John Hay, Henry Morgan, J Pierpont Morgan, JD Rockefeller, and the Vanderbilts


These are steam locomotives at the factory to move the cars around. Not big, because they weren't moving a whole train

I've posted one photo somewhere in the past of a vehicle like the one above... can't recall where it is. This was just to move things about at the factory
The above shows the accordian wall device to allow people to travel between cars without being exposed to the outside soot from the locomotive exhaust and weather
Above and below show the factory method of moving the cars sideways on the "Table"








The above cutaway is similar to the Pullman Progress poster detail pieces below



the above poster has been put to use on a website http://thelibrary.org/lochist/frisco/history/pullman.cfm so that you can click on each of the railcars (like you see below) and get a full page, big detailed look at them, and their description.



the guys in the above photo are the Chicago White Sox, February 27, 1910 - at the Royal Gorge in Colorado on their way to San Francisco for their spring training. This photo was taken along the Arkansas River.

All of these unless noted otherwise, are from one website http://www.pullman-museum.org/cgi-bin/pvm/newGetSubjects.pl?subject=Pullman%20Train%20Cars which has much much more to see. This is just a quick look at the elegant luxury of the fortunately wealthy from 1860-1940's and the signature way of traveling in style and opulance that very few ever could manage.

For more photos from the Pullman archives: http://csrrm.crewnoble.com/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?BU=http%3A%2F%2Fcsrrm.crewnoble.com%2FSearchPullmanAll_Images.htm&QF0=ImageName&QI0=*&MR=30&TN=Pullman&RF=WebDisplay&AC=QBE_QUERY
One of the above articles in 1981 said about 500 Palace cars remained, and only about a handful were upgraded to Amtrak standards of new mechanical and electrical features to get pulled along by the Amtrak trains in America .

I guess very few were ever exported to the wealithiest of other countries, but that those may have greater numbers that are allowed to ride the rails for he right price, condition irrelevant.

President Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln, assumed charge of the company after the founder, George Pullman died, 1898-1911, and renamed it 'Pullman Company.' Lincoln preferred a simple elegance to Pullman's previous luxury cars, and began revising the way Pullman cars were created. During Lincoln's tenure, Pullman purchased the Wagner Palace Car Company, and the Union Palace Car Company

The company continued to produce quality train cars. It suffered immensely when automobile ownership began to eschew passenger train travel, but continued working with freight cars and other means. It acquired the competition and enjoyed much success. The History of Pullman Cars eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/about_5142619_history-pullman-cars.html#ixzz1QPNwmuMD

For a big gallery of full size hi-def, hi-res photos of the restored Pullman at the Nethercutt Museum I visited a couple months ago: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/05/private-pullman-palace-railcar-century.html

This whole post is due to a link from Mary D, she is writing a book that involves the characters using Pullmans, and shared the link with me to share with all of you. Thanks Mary D!

Barnfind 1927 Rolls Royce of Mrs Anheuser Busch


found on http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/05/27/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1927-rolls-royce-phantom-i where the 2nd owner want to part with it for $94,000

Jan and Dean made humorous video for their "Surf City" hit song



found on http://blog.hemmings.com/

A variety of pinstiping from the LA Roadster Show, this time with as many credits to the artists as I could find

These first two were the cutest pieces of art from pinstipers



I'm making an effort to give the credit for the stiping to the artist, but most aren't easy to read the autographs... this looks like GRMJ



Ken Smith?



The above logo of a guy pissing off a cliff is tasteless, and why the artist wants it as his logo is a mystery. the far left looks like a pinstriping brush, and I can't understand whats under the horizontal line
Nice piece, looks reminiscent of Von Dutch's pieces that infer a monster face with a pointed German helmet


Montana


Michael's
The first of many pieces by Itchy

Jimmy C


Coop, but I don't know if this is the "cigar smoking devil" artist, or another guy by the same name. It's a big world, and finding more than one Coop in the hot rod world wouldn't be difficult


Another by Itchy

A vey close facimile to the Tommy the Greek teardrop style, again by the pissed off artist

I can't make this out, it's too small and in cursive

Above is a 2007 piece by Diablo

This is really nice tribute art, a meld of Tommy the Greek teardrop and Von Dutch spears with the flying eyeball... in a chrome look, plus red white, blue and black
this is on the Gherkin
Shertl?
Simple and easy to read Stanford
blue flames above a hockey stick and puck, very unusual... and the name is too small to make out

a 2005 piece by Art Himsl

Jake


Nice autograph by Fator, I like the brush over the name

Another incorporation of the brush, but the name is too undefined Brrrmw?

I like this piece by Itchy, the horizontals and black make it a stand out


Ricklefs?







Whetstone



Styles really nails the autogragh as a trademark, sweet

Taylor designs and a laughing toungue



Palmer, who else?

Awesome striped Tiki by Diablo


this wagon and handmade work table are inspired.