Search Results for: Pullman

Amtrak Collection

Collection Name: Amtrak Collection Location: Pullman Library Description: Car Equipment Rosters; Drawings – Post Implementation Conversion; Drawings – Post HEP Conversion; Equipment Rosters; Manuals – Maintenance AmFleet I & II; Manuals – Maintenance Heritage Fleet; Manuals – Maintenance Superliner I & II; Manuals – Training AmFleet I & II; Manuals

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Trailmobile Collection

Collection Name: Trailmobile Collection Location: Pullman Library Description: Historical photos; trailer documentation; trailer negatives; trailer photographs Size: Percent Digitized: 0% For more information on the Pullman Library, see www.irm.org/pullmanlibrary

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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:

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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

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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%

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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