Pullman rail cars: A detour back through time

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  • @xaenon
    @xaenon 5 років тому +53

    Once upon a time, air travel was actually elegant, too. Definitely been a while.

    • @taxesv1nce142
      @taxesv1nce142 2 роки тому +1

      Air travel hasn’t been luxurious for a while. But train travel has been luxurious since it’s invention.

    • @thatoneguy611
      @thatoneguy611 10 місяців тому +1

      @@taxesv1nce142but it’s certainly fallen quite a bit since freight railroads gave up passenger service.

  • @soularddave2
    @soularddave2 5 років тому +27

    I'm truly thankful that my parents made sure I had many Pullman experiences when they were available on a regular basis. No one can take those sweet memories away, any more than I could possibly describe the sensations in the vestibule between the cars.
    "Silence is requested for those who have retired".

  • @LARailProductions
    @LARailProductions 4 роки тому +13

    Let's not forget that Amtrak's original batch of Superliner cars (which are still in service today) were built by Pullman, the last railcars they ever made!

    • @joshbenton4080
      @joshbenton4080 Рік тому

      Yes, they were the Superliner I order, (1977 - 1981?) ordered in 1975. The Superliner II cars were built 1993 - '95 by Bombardier. The Superliner I cars have European style trucks (bogies) that originally had airbags, later they were retrofitted with a spring. (The airbags weren't suitable for these cars) The Superliner II cars has GSC style trucks, similar to the Amfleet III coaches. (Horizon Fleet from Bombardier in the late '80s) Some of the Superliner I cars still has the Amtrak "Phase III" paint on them, but covered with silver paint when Amtrak gave them the "Diet Pepsi" scheme in the late '90s - early 2000's.

  • @jimp6542
    @jimp6542 5 років тому +46

    When it comes to travel other than by car, my #1 choice is train. Where else can you sit back in comfort, watch the scenery float by and push the worries of the day out of your mind if only for a short time? Going by Pullman would be the ultimate trip.

    • @dodoboodrough6044
      @dodoboodrough6044 5 років тому +7

      Jim it is. As a young boy I rode the City Of New Orleans, The Panama Limited, and the Creole. My father was a railroader for NYC Penn Central, and Conrail. Growing up we would take the Illinois Central sometimes twice a year to vist my mother family in New Orleans, and the thought of getting to travel that train was as exciting it could get for a young boy. We earlier had sleeping berths that had thick wool curtains providing you your privacy, but later we were able to switch to a four bed suite. It was GLORIOUS to say the least. Walking up and down the train cars, talking to the staff, the conductors, playing board and card games in the club car, drinking water out of paper cups from the water coolers in each car, after seeing this I am tempted to do it one again, and relieve those days back in the 50's, and early 60's before it all went away. GREAT MEMORIES!!

    • @debbied7035
      @debbied7035 5 років тому +9

      I really prefer to travel by rail. I buy my tickets ahead online. There's no invasive security screening, and you can bring more luggage. You can stretch your legs and chat on your cell phone or work on your laptop. You can bring your own food or buy it. Other passengers are so much more relaxed. There's actually something to look at. If you're disabled or just have a hard time walking, the are Amtrak employees who run back and forth bringing you things. It's just a better way to travel if you don't need to be somewhere in a hurry.

  • @TheBlueRoan316
    @TheBlueRoan316 5 років тому +100

    Now if Amtrak could pair the Pullmans with a fully renovated steam locomotive THAT would be outstanding. Rail enthusiasts would line up to ride. I would be among them.

    • @dodoboodrough6044
      @dodoboodrough6044 5 років тому +6

      And if they did, it would cost you a pretty penny to ride that train. It would be nice!

    • @lukew7366
      @lukew7366 5 років тому +4

      I feel the same. But Amtrak is broke AF.

    • @debbied7035
      @debbied7035 5 років тому +4

      @@lukew7366 Amtrak loses about $32 per passenger on average. When you're talking about how much money the government spends on keeping Amtrak afloat it helps to remember that it is designed as a service, much like a municipal bus system.
      I've ridden Amtrak alot, it definitely does take longer than a airline jet, but for a number of reasons its so much better way to travel. As long as time is not an issue for you. It's also alot less if you buy your ticket ahead.

    • @_chan.burn.21_
      @_chan.burn.21_ 5 років тому +3

      A fully renovated steam locomotive or a vintage EMD F-Unit set pulling this consist and you can consider me on board, literally.

    • @cajunpj1
      @cajunpj1 5 років тому

      王略.jygtffynjmkubgv Best thandieu$ni

  • @hockeyman1054
    @hockeyman1054 5 років тому +8

    Train Therapy? Just had some a few weeks back!!! CHI to NOLA and back up. Excellent!! Loved every single minute of it!! Been riding the rails since the mid-fifties. Its the only way to go!!

  • @richardcasias7754
    @richardcasias7754 5 років тому +10

    I had forgotten about Sunday morning. I always liked the documentaries. This one was especially close to my love of train's.

  • @fleetwin1
    @fleetwin1 5 років тому +15

    I dream of taking a trip like this in an original pullman car, definitely high on my bucket list for sure

  • @jayyoung4534
    @jayyoung4534 4 роки тому +6

    As Bob Hope would have it, "Thanks for the memories." Only mine were of a ride to New York aboard two of the luxury trains of the time: The Super Chief and the 20th Century, Ltd. I went Pullman on both. What a treat. So is the memory.

  • @jpatrickmoore5158
    @jpatrickmoore5158 4 роки тому +7

    When I was a kid, my mom took us four kids on the train from Portland to Seattle. A day trip, we had lunch with her youngest sister who worked for IBM in Seattle. Did some shopping, then caught the airport shuttle and flew back to Portland. She told us that we had to do it before the passenger trains disappeared. I loved that trip!

  • @marshallbaldwin395
    @marshallbaldwin395 5 років тому +7

    I remember my mom and dad taking us on train trips in the late 50s and early 60s nice to see them coming back short hops on a plane frequently take more time than driving it maybe this will trains make a comeback

    • @roadforrunner
      @roadforrunner 5 років тому

      It's the tracks that need the work.

  • @debbied7035
    @debbied7035 5 років тому +6

    I've wanted to travel in a Pullman car since the first time I watched The Thin Man.
    I did ride The Coast Starlight first class from Seattle to Los Angeles. It had a beautiful fully restored parlor car, white linens with xlnt food, wine tasting etc. But the sleeper cars were up by the engines so you heard the horn at every crossing. I'd do it again in a minute.

  • @cynthiahawkins2389
    @cynthiahawkins2389 6 років тому +17

    And not only that Doug..there's more of US than there are of THEM. You're in good company, my friend. I too, am 'weird"..and I dearly remember in the 1950's as a youngster: riding the train down to White Sulphur Springs, West Va, with my Dad who worked at the Greenbrier..oh what great days. Rail travel. I recall it with such enormous joy. The comfort, the dining car, (I felt so grown up)...that rocking motion as the train gently lulled you to sleep (wonderful, for a small kid tucked up in my snuggly train bed by the kindly porter)...BTW Speaking of which, my colleague's father put his kids through school, and did very well, as a Pullman server/porter employee on the trains. In those days (the Jim Crow era), that was a plum job for an African- American man. Mr. D. , a gracious, dignified gentleman...was hugely proud of his work, and his family was as well!

    • @Linflas
      @Linflas 5 років тому +2

      I remember taking the train from Washington DC to Oakland MD to visit my grandparents in Thomas, WV. What a beautiful ride it was, in some spots you rode along the Potomac 100's of feet up from the river. To this day I still love trains.

  • @JoeyLovesTrains
    @JoeyLovesTrains 5 років тому +7

    Traveling via train, is so different from going on a plane, you have so much more space, and freedom of stress. It’s faster (at times) than busses, and you’re not confined to a small seat. You have a cafe car, and food. And sometimes you can get off the train to stretch your legs. It feels like a secret society when you’re on a long distance train, because once you realize how cheap it is compared to air travel, you can’t go back. You can keep looking out the windows at sights going by. Most people do t turn their heads when they’re stopped at a crossing. You feel invisible, like you’re floating above the ground.
    It’s a grand, and fabulous experience, that many people don’t take advantage of, and sometimes don’t even notice.

    • @ednorton47
      @ednorton47 4 роки тому +2

      @SlowHandMcQueeg That will never happen as long as it is run by the government.

  • @Moltar_Railfan
    @Moltar_Railfan 4 роки тому +22

    1:42 the locomotives whistle is still a siren song to some
    *blows Amtrak GE horn

    • @6777Productions
      @6777Productions 4 роки тому +1

      Exactly! Steam locomotives have the whistles whilst the deisel's have horns... I wish more people understood that nuanced difference

    • @kencarp57
      @kencarp57 4 роки тому

      6777 Productions The difference between an old-time steam whistle and a diesel horn is in no way “nuanced”.
      A steam whistle is a wonderful nostalgic sound, while a diesel horn is just loud and obnoxious!

    • @6777Productions
      @6777Productions 4 роки тому

      @@kencarp57 depends if you are a steam or a diesel person...

    • @fastmail55
      @fastmail55 4 роки тому

      Yes...I caught that too... I know non railroad people that literally cannot tell the difference between the sound of an air horn and a steam whistle. Unbelievable...

  • @reddogdumpsters7951
    @reddogdumpsters7951 4 роки тому +1

    Wonderful historical video highlighting Bessemer, AL! Great Video!!

  • @dmahlgre23
    @dmahlgre23 6 років тому +13

    Trains are a lot of fun, and relaxing. I say more Pullman cars!!

  • @OldCodger75
    @OldCodger75 4 роки тому +1

    One of the finest memories of my young life, was traveling via Pullman "sleeper cars" from New Orleans to Chicago in 1950, on the City of New Orleans, with 2 cousins...We connected with three more boys in Chicago, then rode west on a line that boasted the famed "Vista Dome" (glass topped ) car. Ages were from 14-18, and we ended up at my grandfather's ranch in Cody Wyoming. Now, at age 83, it's like a sweet "time travel" dream..

  • @mychemicalbromance97
    @mychemicalbromance97 5 років тому +3

    very cool and even cooler the little bit about the cars in storage in Whiteland which I have drove past and been curious of since

  • @williamschlenger1518
    @williamschlenger1518 4 роки тому +3

    Pullman lived in my hometown Long Branch, New Jersey. We even have a Pullman Avenue.

  • @jacobramsey7624
    @jacobramsey7624 4 роки тому +3

    The Conway Scenic Railroad has a Pullman Palace car from 1898. It is currently the oldest known Pullman Palace car that still does daily pasanger service in the world.

  • @alansklenar2848
    @alansklenar2848 8 років тому +10

    It's such a beautiful color combination

    • @bangbangninergang7573
      @bangbangninergang7573 5 років тому +2

      UPS copied their color scheme from these train cars.

    • @judithann7193
      @judithann7193 4 роки тому +1

      Each railroad had it's own colour scheme. You could tell each company by the colour as a train went by.

  • @pauladams9067
    @pauladams9067 4 роки тому +1

    Being from Railroad families , of the turn of the century & into the30's, 40's, 50's , 60's & 70's , I was allowed to ride the "Steam" Engines, Diesels, mail cars, Cabooses, Dining car , Pullman"Sleepers" many times!! I rode the Train from Atlanta to San Diego in 1954 to U S NAVY " boot camp" the Steam Engine stopped to get water, in the town where the movie " Bad day at Black Rock" was filmed, and we were allowed off to walk the same street that Spencer Tracy was filmed on. Needless to say, I had a great childhood living next to the NC& STL & SOUTHERN RAILWAYS, IN Atlanta!!!!

  • @dcatransit
    @dcatransit 10 років тому +164

    Thank you, Sunday Morning. I do wish , however, that you didn't look down on those of us who love rail travel as weird people. All people are weird.

    • @MrKenru15
      @MrKenru15 10 років тому +7

      Amen. "Ken" Ruben

    • @jackanthony976
      @jackanthony976 7 років тому +15

      Why is loving train travel weird? It is no weirder than friends of mine who are model car freaks. My father was a truck freak who would constantly talk about trucks and attend all the truck meets. Then there are the race car freaks. Then there are the airplane freaks who constantly talk about model planes and spend their time reading aviation magazines. Me? I'm a combination of an airplane and train freak. I will ride any train. I would love to ride the old fashioned Pullman that is depicted in this video. Where do I sign up?

    • @factnotfiction3544
      @factnotfiction3544 6 років тому +2

      👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾👍🏾

    • @diamonddog257
      @diamonddog257 6 років тому +21

      The definition of 'weird'.....-is putting up with all the bs in airports these days .....
      ewwww

    • @mjarail
      @mjarail 5 років тому +5

      Chalk it up to the mindset of the lamestream news media. I have had some less than pleasant encounters with the less enlightened members of the Fourth Estate.

  • @kevinhoward9593
    @kevinhoward9593 5 років тому +7

    Via Rail's Canadian is North America's last true streamliner. It still uses its original 1955 trainset. (although some cars are from the original Super Continental).

    • @GLeeFleming
      @GLeeFleming 4 роки тому +1

      Kevin HowardThe „Canadian“ is a treasure!

  • @surplusking2425
    @surplusking2425 5 років тому +13

    Make America's train great again!

    • @sharronneedles6721
      @sharronneedles6721 4 роки тому +2

      Well I mean trump kinna didnt want that to happen, so this slogan doesn't go well with that😂😂😂

    • @lukeWiz44
      @lukeWiz44 3 роки тому +1

      @@sharronneedles6721 pfp checks out.

    • @sharronneedles6721
      @sharronneedles6721 3 роки тому

      @@lukeWiz44 yea it sorta does, im gay, I have the LGBT+ flag as my pfp. Makes sense, unlike your comment.

  • @michaelingram2492
    @michaelingram2492 9 років тому +15

    If you guys knew David Duncan,he is freaking awesome...he is probably my mentor if I had to choose,he got me into railroading with pullman

  • @robertnielsen2461
    @robertnielsen2461 4 роки тому +2

    I've traveled some in old C47 s to modern jets.I prefer trains when I have the time and that's the rub,sometimes I'm to pressed for time,it would be great if we just slow down and smell the roses and maybe sneak in a ride in a Pullman.A line from an old Glen Miller song says it all"dinner in the diner nothing could be finer".

  • @chevy266nova
    @chevy266nova 5 років тому +5

    To take a train ride is something I hope is in my future.

  • @drawn2myattention641
    @drawn2myattention641 4 роки тому +4

    When the beds are pulled down in the Amtrak bedroom, they block the compartment door! Are these old Pullman's better laid out? I'll bet they are.

  • @101southsideboy
    @101southsideboy 10 років тому +4

    I see those cars a lot on the tail end of the city of new Orleans when it pulls out of Homewood ILL station at 2054 hr ( 8:54pm)

  • @robertglotzer9665
    @robertglotzer9665 8 років тому +48

    You were "living large" if you could afford Pullman tickets - most people went by day coach!

    • @dynamo3059
      @dynamo3059 5 років тому +4

      yup. this is only nostalgia if you were rich. like private jet flight is today.

    • @ogarnogin5160
      @ogarnogin5160 5 років тому +3

      @@dynamo3059 The equivalent to a private jet was a private rail car.

  • @davinp
    @davinp 4 роки тому +1

    Pullman also manufactured double-decker cars called Gallery cars. Chicago Metra has several of them still in service and sold to various transit agencies around the country

  • @jaydee9721
    @jaydee9721 5 років тому +1

    The new observation cars look like those used on the Alaska Railroad. They really offer spectacular views.

  • @LeonardoDeVinci1452
    @LeonardoDeVinci1452 5 років тому +3

    I hope someday Pullman's come to California I would love to ride one up the coast or even Chicago

  • @daveogarf
    @daveogarf 5 років тому +2

    BEAUTIFUL!

  • @agwrr71productions79
    @agwrr71productions79 3 місяці тому

    I'm glad they're restoring these to their original blueprint specifications.

  • @stripervince1
    @stripervince1 5 років тому +2

    Awesome. The good old days

  • @theshapeexists
    @theshapeexists 2 роки тому

    My grandpa owned one of these cars. We kept it at union Station in Denver. He bought it with 10 of his friends and paid amtrak by the mile to tow it around. Eventually all the rules and regulations made it prohibitively expensive and they had to conduct all these metallurgical tests on the trucks and axles before leaving stations from each state. It got ridiculous and he Eventually sold his share, but man was it cool while it lasted. I had a party on it back when I was in college. It was beautiful, mostly original and very clean. A total blast from the past with a full kitchen. We were at the end of the train, and because of the way it was setup, was inaccessible from the amtrak cars, so they had to be sure to have everything to be self sufficient with food and supplies, which we had a full kitchen in and were hooked up to power from the locos. Good times

  • @tdgreenbay
    @tdgreenbay 5 років тому +2

    Train is still the best way to travel.... what's missing are so many of the great names like Milwaukee road, Chicago Northwestern, Southern, Soo Line, and others that had great tracks and lines and Steamers

  • @fillup40
    @fillup40 5 років тому +4

    How cool, hope it comes to the west coast.

    • @stevedugger7552
      @stevedugger7552 5 років тому +1

      No..Pelosi will find something racist or inappropriate about the train..Newsome will find an American flag or something he hates on the train..

  • @56BIGM
    @56BIGM 5 років тому +2

    outstanding!!!!!!!!!!!!! i remember the days---mostly we afforded only an upper birth, and meals were expensive --did have a roomette once

  • @tomt43
    @tomt43 4 роки тому +28

    There is nothing "odd" about an interest in trains!

    • @enniswhalen2428
      @enniswhalen2428 4 роки тому +2

      S C - I ALWAYS thought of myself as a lover of trains . . . .until Amtrak made me sick to my stomach . . . .

    • @fastmail55
      @fastmail55 4 роки тому +1

      Yes sir! I've dealt with this attitude all my life.

    • @hitthebricks5502
      @hitthebricks5502 4 роки тому

      Agreed!

    • @hitthebricks5502
      @hitthebricks5502 4 роки тому

      Edward Henry Harriman People think it’s not “cool” funny thing is, what is cool changes all the time. We can all enjoy the things we want :)

  • @caseyjones745
    @caseyjones745 5 років тому +2

    Beautiful!

  • @dickhead402
    @dickhead402 5 років тому +4

    Each place I've been taking I've been there before it triggers a memory

  • @lauraz2896
    @lauraz2896 4 роки тому +2

    I was hoping that they’d show a little bit about the Pullman factory in Chicago

    • @GLeeFleming
      @GLeeFleming 4 роки тому

      Laura Z ed Ellis’new Pullman company has been kaput for some time now, alas! It was, indeed,wonderful while it lasted!Very too bad!

  • @jayyoung4534
    @jayyoung4534 4 роки тому +1

    The sadly departed American Orient Express was a 25 million dollar makeover of the old B&O and enjoyed a highly successful but short life, having derailed in Mexico, damaging better than 2/3 of the carriages. But up until that unfortunate time, oh, boy, what a treat!

  • @zepherdude
    @zepherdude 10 років тому +25

    I think this is great! If you can make a buck turning these cars i am all far it. I think any efforts to bring rail back to the US will be beneficial!

  • @TheAznative101
    @TheAznative101 5 років тому +15

    With the changes to flying. TSA is a lot more people are option for rail. I would rather hit a wall at 90 mph than fall 37k feet at 600+ mph. I have gone by rail in Germany and the US. Cost and other factors could bring back the train to the level it was in the last century.

    • @TheAznative101
      @TheAznative101 5 років тому +4

      @Jerome O'Mara I have traveled by rail in Europe. Germany, Denmark, UK. Planes killed rail travel as did automobiles in inter and intra urban rail travel. Over time the rail companies saw more profit in freight than in passenger travel. Unlike Europe and Japan rail travel is done on shared rails not dedicated to high speed trains. Rail has a romance associated with it. It may or may not re-surge if we get high speed in some corridors. More routes for standard travel. Case in point if I want to travel to Denver from where I am I need to take a train to Los Angeles then transfer to one going to the SF Bay area transfer again to the train going east to Denver. It is less expensive to fly to that destination but not by much. So far terrorists have not targeted rail travel in the USA. I just prefer to travel by rail.

    • @nightfury8440
      @nightfury8440 4 роки тому +1

      @Jerome O'Mara more people did by car in the USA than by gun...

  • @aandjwynn
    @aandjwynn 4 роки тому +2

    Bravo!

  • @granskare
    @granskare 5 років тому +7

    the interstates were subsidized by the govt and also the airports but not the trains- amtrak was what we got,

    • @Bestroblozianxxx
      @Bestroblozianxxx 4 роки тому +3

      That’s not true, passenger rail service is subsidized by state local and the federal government, the problem is they don’t spend enough money to have a real first class train. Countries in Europe spend billions per year to run first class passenger trains that are clean efficient and run on time

  • @justincadle7070
    @justincadle7070 17 днів тому

    I would totally rent one of these cars and party on the way to Chicago. Imagine if you could rent vintage 50’s Pullman party rail cars.

  • @westwasbest
    @westwasbest 3 роки тому

    I see a couple of beautiful assorted old cars like these parked in the Rensselaer New York Amtrak yard oh, they look like they're brand-new like the ones on this video

  • @alansklenar2848
    @alansklenar2848 8 років тому +2

    It would be neat if they had a Train set in the original City of Miami colors.The pictures I seen showed Orange and Green for the colors

  • @nicholasthompson7690
    @nicholasthompson7690 7 років тому +5

    Fantastic

  • @burdizdawurd1516Official
    @burdizdawurd1516Official 5 років тому +3

    Iowa Pacific takes good care of their equipment. It's ironic that such well maintained coaches are slapped behind trains which Amtrak probably hasn't maintained in 6 months!

  • @MusikCassette
    @MusikCassette 2 роки тому

    how does the interface between the company, that operates the train, and the company that operates the car work? Can you book spaces on trains for your cars? how does that work?

  • @claytonrowe8103
    @claytonrowe8103 4 роки тому +1

    Excellent!!

  • @lincolnpaul1814
    @lincolnpaul1814 5 років тому +2

    I guess it’s cheaper to dwell on the past than build a new system of modern elegance in trains like Europe did

  • @LandNfan
    @LandNfan 5 років тому

    I can remember as a child of about 8, traveling with my mother and baby brother from Nashville to Chicago on a Pullman sleeper. It wasn’t the open sections, we had a bedroom compartment. That would have been about 1954. The trip was booked on the Louisville & Nashville, although the cars were probably switched to a Chicago & Eastern Illinois locomotive during the stop in Evansville.

    • @LandNfan
      @LandNfan 5 років тому

      chief tp When I was a freshman at UT in 1964, I would explore the abandoned yard down in the gulch between the university and downtown.

  • @kathyyoung1774
    @kathyyoung1774 5 років тому +6

    Would be great if they had more east-west routes. They are all north south. I tried to go from Florida to Texas, and they laughed at me.

    • @dodoboodrough6044
      @dodoboodrough6044 5 років тому +1

      Yes my wife and I rode the Amtrak from Oakland to Chicago, we really didn't enjoy it for the most part. Maybe the train companies will do more because of the nostalgia feelings?

    • @ConrailQuality775
      @ConrailQuality775 5 років тому +1

      That would be because you can’t get to Texas from Florida...no direct link

    • @charlesgreathouse7376
      @charlesgreathouse7376 5 років тому +1

      Amtrak used to run from California to Orlando.

    • @kathyyoung1774
      @kathyyoung1774 5 років тому

      I remember. I took Greyhound instead.

    • @nightfury8440
      @nightfury8440 4 роки тому +1

      @ freight railways don't want passengers tho

  • @LMays-cu2hp
    @LMays-cu2hp 4 роки тому

    Looking very nice.

  • @robertjackson4121
    @robertjackson4121 5 років тому +1

    Have heard of retrofit steam engines. Courious about 1960-2000 trains after DuPont WA train wreck?

    • @centredoorplugsthornton4112
      @centredoorplugsthornton4112 4 роки тому +2

      The train that went on the ground in Washington state is a completely different design than the trains shown here. And other factors contributed to the crash.

  • @russellhunt5907
    @russellhunt5907 6 років тому

    The Pullman Factory building in Richmond, CA, is still there by the port.

  • @tomtom3889
    @tomtom3889 5 років тому +3

    That’s awesome I’ll be in line in ny

  • @CincinnatiWatchCompany
    @CincinnatiWatchCompany 4 роки тому

    The best way to travel!

  • @QED_
    @QED_ 5 років тому +14

    So my dream of a train trip with Eva Marie Saint . . . is not dead yet (?)

    • @Wa3ypx
      @Wa3ypx 5 років тому +3

      Ya better hurry up and ask her because she's 95 y.o.

    • @Wa3ypx
      @Wa3ypx 5 років тому +3

      Wait a minute! One hour later it hit me! That Eva Marie Saint reference was a nod to North by Northwest! Ahhh tueche!

    • @QED_
      @QED_ 5 років тому +1

      @Wa3ypx: (LOL) I do the best I can . . .

    • @samiam619
      @samiam619 5 років тому +1

      Wa3ypx Took you an hour? Tsk tsk tsk... 😄

    • @QED_
      @QED_ 5 років тому +1

      @Samuel Hayden: I don't know. If he's under, say, 45 . . . that's really pretty good. I'd be amazed if 1 out of 100 were as good . . .

  • @mrpeel3239
    @mrpeel3239 4 роки тому

    These dedicated Pullmanites are national treasures, themselves.

  • @JoseMorales-lw5nt
    @JoseMorales-lw5nt 4 роки тому +2

    Seeing those Pullman Cars reminds me of when the Three Stooges parodied the film 20th Century Limited and did jokes regarding the sleeping cars....JOHN...SOOOON! My fellow knuckleheads, unite! 🇵🇷🇺🇸🤣

  • @Wa3ypx
    @Wa3ypx 5 років тому +3

    wow going on a Pullman to the 1939 Worlds Fair

  • @criswphoto
    @criswphoto 5 років тому +2

    Anyone know if this is still operating? Can't find anything online

    • @jgederschicago
      @jgederschicago 5 років тому +2

      www.vacationsbyrail.com/united-states/pullman-rail-journeys

    • @jgederschicago
      @jgederschicago 5 років тому +2

      After further investigation, I discovered that Amtrak will no longer pull their cars.

  • @flaminglaughter
    @flaminglaughter 5 років тому +1

    How do you have WiFi when Amtrak can’t do ti?

    • @ednorton47
      @ednorton47 4 роки тому +1

      Amtrak is affiliated with the government, so no one cares about customers.

  •  5 років тому +2

    :51 That Brochure !!!

  • @fillup40
    @fillup40 4 роки тому

    Does that still exist?

  • @dobermanpac1064
    @dobermanpac1064 5 років тому +7

    I’ll go by train every time I travel. Air travel is nothing but flying school bus’.

    • @fastmail55
      @fastmail55 5 років тому +1

      Or flying cattle car...

  • @fillup40
    @fillup40 7 років тому +4

    That's cool.

  • @nicopavvi8494
    @nicopavvi8494 4 роки тому

    Does anybody know if there are pullman coaches in Europe?

    • @casbrowne9055
      @casbrowne9055 Рік тому

      Many are preserved in the United Kingdom

  • @TimMackFamilyEnterprises
    @TimMackFamilyEnterprises 6 років тому +1

    I have an entire HO set of IC pullmans.

  • @elperroazul9992
    @elperroazul9992 6 років тому +13

    I really hate airplanes. I mean I still like planes although I like trains. But I don’t why people like being crowded at a terminal and ride a flying metal tube with wings that lacks of privacy and beds. Trains have beds and private sleepers for everybody. Plus they serve better meals. Whereas if you get hungry on a long flight you’ll just have to hold the pain. Also I can barely sleep on airplanes ✈️ because of turbulence,crying babies, noisy people, and who knows what else. Plus planes get delayed A LOT. What if you ride a train and you’re going to NYC and you’re friend takes a plane then all of a sudden there’s a snow storm 🌨. What if the delay is 12 hours long. What that flight starts boarding at the same time you arrived?

    • @enniswhalen2428
      @enniswhalen2428 6 років тому +5

      Kev the R - Hey! I am so glad that you commented.Please get together with other "train lovers" and jump on our friends at Amtrak to roll prices back to reasonable, so that more and more of us WOULD take the train. Use your influence! Please!

    • @surpw
      @surpw 6 років тому +3

      Kev the Railfanner I like both to be honest

    • @JulyFourth1776
      @JulyFourth1776 5 років тому +5

      America needs high speed rail now!

  • @mattsmocs3281
    @mattsmocs3281 9 років тому +8

    I want to get a private car, someday.

    • @williamlewis5114
      @williamlewis5114 6 років тому +1

      Save your money. Amtrak no longer allows private car short runs.

    • @ogarnogin5160
      @ogarnogin5160 5 років тому +1

      @@williamlewis5114 Hire a freight train

  • @deanhoward4142
    @deanhoward4142 4 роки тому +2

    They took the midnight train going anywhere...

  • @FORTRAN4ever
    @FORTRAN4ever 4 роки тому

    As far as durability are concerned, the all stainless steel Budd cars win that contest. Pullman tried to use different steel alloys but was unsuccessful at preventing corrosion. Also to me, the Budd cars with those unpainted, fluted siding siding and corrugated roof to me very stylish than the Pullman cars (even with the faux stainless steel siding).

  • @michaelwoll9349
    @michaelwoll9349 5 років тому +4

    1950 Train Cars..... CBS plays 1910-30 Music.

  • @TRONDROM
    @TRONDROM 4 роки тому

    They should do this for the Empire Builder, 🌅 Limited, and California Zephyr.

  • @michaelglass4701
    @michaelglass4701 5 років тому +1

    Looooove your video 👍🛤️🚝,I have some IC N Scale passenger cars

  • @kevinhoward9593
    @kevinhoward9593 6 років тому +3

    Streamliners are completely dead. Via Rail's Ocean and Canadian still use vintage 1955 cars.

  • @artnc4139
    @artnc4139 5 років тому

    Now do an interview of the porters that worked for Pullman in South Chicago

    • @Wa3ypx
      @Wa3ypx 5 років тому

      Hey Porter! Hey Porter! Would you tell me the time? How much longer till we cross that Mason-Dixon line?

    • @artnc4139
      @artnc4139 5 років тому

      @@Wa3ypx - according to a friend of mine who had a relative who worked there - the Pullman neighborhood was a defacto company town and the porters were held essentially as economic slaves. That aspect is completely missing from this starry eyed history lesson.

    • @ConrailQuality775
      @ConrailQuality775 5 років тому +2

      Fred Stiening
      Because it’s not relevant. We are talking about restoring historic rail cars for modern-day journeys, not a day-by-day history of Pullman.

    • @artnc4139
      @artnc4139 5 років тому

      @@ConrailQuality775 - okay, ignore history at your peril

    • @ednorton47
      @ednorton47 4 роки тому

      @@artnc4139 If you go to Chicago, you can still visit the Pullman company town today.

  • @Gablesman888
    @Gablesman888 5 років тому

    I have flown many places in this world. Gone by ship. But the very best form of transportation is by train and Pullman is the best of train travel. If I have a choice in the matter, I take the train.

  • @scottp4077
    @scottp4077 4 роки тому

    Bring back the turn of the century interiors and offer 4 hour round trips that include a light lunch in an antique dining car...you'll be swimming in money

  • @ronniedelahoussayechauvin6717
    @ronniedelahoussayechauvin6717 3 роки тому

    I never road on a Train, I always wanted too.

  • @ludwigtails
    @ludwigtails 3 роки тому +1

    Who is watching this in 2021

  • @brianhollenbeck8633
    @brianhollenbeck8633 3 роки тому

    Alas..no smoking car...😪👑🌎🌏🌍

  • @RandomNonsense1985
    @RandomNonsense1985 Рік тому +1

    Pullman makes me think of the 1890s, not 1955.

  • @tedphillips2501
    @tedphillips2501 5 років тому

    Wish we had a Pullman airplane.

    • @roadforrunner
      @roadforrunner 5 років тому +1

      c'mon dude

    • @HaiMalonBodoh
      @HaiMalonBodoh 5 років тому +2

      We had before
      It's called pan am

    • @samiam619
      @samiam619 5 років тому +1

      I was in First Class (long story, no haters please) in a 777 and my seat folded down to a flat bed. I was too sick to enjoy First Class, but I did enjoy the chance to lay down.

    • @HaiMalonBodoh
      @HaiMalonBodoh 5 років тому

      @@samiam619 when did you fly ??
      need more story :D

    • @xaenon
      @xaenon 5 років тому

      @@HaiMalonBodoh Yes. Long ago, air travel was almost as elegant as Pullman service. Pretty expensive for either, though, or so I'm told. Now they just cram you in like cattle.

  • @kcpatri
    @kcpatri 10 років тому +1

    i'm sorry when did Pullman cars stop running on all railways I ride on a Pullman train every day a train of pullman r46's!!!

    • @mattsmocs3281
      @mattsmocs3281 9 років тому

      Depends are you in the uk. Those Pullmans are not real, the company whent out a long time ago.

    • @kcpatri
      @kcpatri 9 років тому +1

      Matt`s Mocs I live in new york if you couldn't tell by me talking about a nyc subway car and Pullman-standard went bankrupt about 40 years ago, while the R46 fleet was rebuilt with new features the fleet was originally built by pullman-standard as seen by the builder's plates.

    • @ax2bxc
      @ax2bxc 8 років тому +1

      Matt`s Mocs
      The British Pullman coaches are original but restored and they are not replicas

    • @saulschlapik6818
      @saulschlapik6818 7 років тому +2

      Pullman stopped operating sleeping cars at the end of 1968. I believe Pullman was forced to divest the operating company in the late 40s due to an anti-trust ruling. The operating company was then sold to the individual railroads while Pullman retained ownership of rail car manufacturer Pullman-Standard. As I recall, the last cars built by P-S were Amtrak's Superliner I fleet.

    • @planeflight1202
      @planeflight1202 6 років тому

      i see pullman standard commuter cars on metra in service and frequently ride them

  • @cartman4885
    @cartman4885 5 років тому

    It looks fantastic too bad I will never be able to afford ride.......

    • @ednorton47
      @ednorton47 4 роки тому

      Just put it on a credit card and then don't pay. The Federal Reserve will counterfeit some funds to cover it.

  • @john6291
    @john6291 5 років тому

    black pullman porters were paid 0.15 an hour.. ran shifts 24 hours plus with no breaks... good times..

    • @chrisk8187
      @chrisk8187 5 років тому

      BUT the cost of living was proportionally less as well.

    • @nightfury8440
      @nightfury8440 4 роки тому

      Yeah and at the time were paid fairly

  • @randall8379
    @randall8379 3 роки тому

    I guess this is defunct.

  • @michaelwatson1737
    @michaelwatson1737 4 роки тому

    So, are they going to reenact the pullman porters too??

  • @leobethge6002
    @leobethge6002 3 місяці тому

    Yes, i could use some train therapy