Search Results for: PULLMAN
Budd Collection
Collection Name: Budd Company Drawings Location: Pullman Library Description: Airport moving lounges; passenger car drawings; passenger car drawing lists; passenger car job information; passenger car vendor drawings; test and research and development papers and results; transit vehicle drawings; export (Portugal, Brazil, etc.) vehicle drawings Size: Roughly 100,000 drawings Percent Digitized:
Railroad Documents
Collection Name: Railroad Documents Collection Location: Pullman Library Description: B&O, B&OCT, C&WI valuation maps; CA&E documents, maps, Cincinnati Car Co. drawings; CMStP&P profiles, signals track, MOW drawings; CRI&P drawings and photos; GTW/DT&I drawings and documents; IC glass plate negatives, track profiles; rule books, instructions, employee and public timetables, maps; railroad
CTA Collection
Collection Name: Chicago Transit Authority Collection Location: Pullman Library, Strahorn Library, Electric Car Department Library Description: Documents (brochures, correspondence, photos, specifications), equipment drawings and blueprints, maps (system, station), historical photos, ephemera Size: Percent Digitized: 5%
Map Collection
Collection Name: Map Collection Location: Buildings & Grounds Collection, Pullman Library Description: Railroad and other transportation maps Size: Percent Digitized: 50% Notes: Some maps on public display in the diner and elsewhere For more information on the Pullman Library, see www.irm.org/pullmanlibrary
Railroad Books
Collection Name: Railroad Books Location: Strahorn Library Description: Published railroad books Size: Percent Digitized: 0% Notes: Additional railroad books held by the Pullman Library, Electric Car Department Library, and Steam Department Library
EMD Technical Library
Collection Name: Electro-Motive Division Technical Library Location: Strahorn Library, Pullman Library Description: Books, color illustrations Size: Percent Digitized: 0% For more information on the Pullman Library, see www.irm.org/pullmanlibrary
Municipality of Metro Seattle 656
The War Production Board and the Office of Defense Transportation restricted manufacturing and sale of new trolley buses during WWII. Only Pullman-Standard’s Worcester, Massachusetts, plant was permitted to build them during the entire war; other manufacturers were busy making war material instead. Seattle was able to order 30 trolley buses
Metra 7658
Metra 7658 is a bi-level coach designed for commuter service out of Chicago. It is known as a “gallery car” because the upper level is divided, with a gap (or “gallery”) down the middle of the car to enable the conductor to collect fares from both levels while standing on
Chicago Surface Lines 4001
Chicago Surface Lines 4001 is the last surviving pre-PCC streamliner. During the early 1930s the Electric Railway Presidents Conference Committee, or PCC, worked to develop a modern streetcar. Chicago ordered car 4001 and one other as prototypes to test modern technologies. Car 4001 was all-aluminum, to save weight, and used
Cleveland Transit System 4223
The only Pullman-built PCC car in the museum’s collection is Cleveland Transit System 4223. It is largely a standard postwar PCC car but features an unusual rooftop monitor which contains an air circulating system. It is in the midst of a major multi-year rebuilding effort to return it to original