Search Results for: Pullman
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
Rapid Transit Cars
Photo Number, Builder & Year Description Chicago Elevated Railway 1754, Jewett 1906 Railroad-roof wood elevated Chicago Rapid Transit 1268, AC&F; 1907 Railroad-roof wood trailer Chicago Rapid Transit 1797, AC&F; 1907 Railroad-roof wood elevated Chicago Rapid Transit 1808, AC&F; 1907 Railroad-roof wood elevated Chicago Rapid Transit 2872, Pullman 1906 Deck-roof
Internal Combustion Locomotives
Photo Number, Builder & Year Description Amtrak 231, EMD 1977 Diesel-Electric F40PHR Armco B71, Baldwin-Westinghouse 1930 Diesel-Electric Visibility cab Armco E110, Lima-Hamilton 1951 Diesel-Electric Switcher 1200hp Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe 543, Fairbanks-Morse 1956 Diesel-Electric H12-44TS Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe 92, EMD 1967 Diesel-Electric FP45 Burlington Northern 5383, GE
Freight Cars
Photo Number, Builder & Year Description American Colloid (EVEX) 4403, CFC? 1952 RB Box Car American Colloid (EVEX) 4410, CFC? 1952 RB Box Car American Colloid (EVEX) 4534, CFC? 1948 RB Box Car American Colloid (EVEX) 4584, CFC? 1948 RB Box Car American Oil Company (AMOX) 9499, AC&F 1912 TM
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