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The Survivor was a private railroad car built by the American Car and Foundry Company in 1926 for Jesse Woolworth, the heiress to F.W. Woolworth. The car was used by the Woolworth family from 1926 through 1939, transporting the family to French Lick, Pinehurst, the Greenbrier and Palm Beach. The car is reputed to have been the courtship car of ...
Pullman Company. The Pullman Company, [ 1 ] founded by George Pullman, was a manufacturer of railroad cars in the mid-to-late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the United States. Through rapid late-19th century development of mass production and takeover of rivals, the company developed a ...
Pullman (car or coach) Pullman VRIC7 rail car sponsored by Kitchi Gammi Club. Pullman is the term for railroad sleeping cars that were built and operated by the Pullman Company (founded by George Pullman) from 1867 to December 31, 1968. The term also refers to railway dining cars in the U.S. and Europe that were operated by the Pullman Company ...
The Superliner is a type of bilevel intercity railroad passenger car used by Amtrak, the national rail passenger carrier in the United States. Amtrak commissioned the cars to replace older single-level cars on its long-distance trains in the Western United States. The design was based on the Budd Hi-Level cars used by the Santa Fe Railway on ...
Throughout railroad history, many manufacturing companies have come and gone. This is a list of companies that manufactured railroad cars and other rolling stock.Most of these companies built both passenger and freight equipment and no distinction is made between the two for the purposes of this list.
Paris, France. Owner. Newrest [fr] (since 2010) Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits[a] (International Sleeping-Car Company) is a Belgian-founded French company known for providing and operating luxury trains with sleepers and dining cars during the late 19th and the 20th centuries, most notably the Orient Express.
Siemens Venture is a type of locomotive-hauled passenger railroad car built by Siemens Mobility for the North American market. The cars are derived from the Siemens Viaggio Comfort cars used in Europe, with adaptations for North American operations. The cars entered service with Brightline in 2018 and with Amtrak Midwest (services funded by ...
The trains, built in Chicago at the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co., cost $1 million each (over $13 million today), not including the diesel-electric locomotives built in La Grange ...