Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Class does not include Pullman rates, which have, however, also been reduced to about two-thirds of their former price. A lower to Chicago, formerly $10.13, will...
...blow but a blessing in most observers' eyes was the California vote to Governor Landon. Ever since Publisher Hearst took up the Landon candidacy, and especially since he and his entourage descended on Topeka last December in two private cars and a chartered Pullman, Hearst support has been a prime Landon problem...
More significant to standard U. S. railroading is the development of better service on regular trains. Having long since taken the extra-fare charge off its crack all-Pullman Los Angeles Limited, U. P. will next week begin operating The Challenger between Chicago and Los Angeles. Composed of both "tourist sleepers" (old Pullmans) and coaches, The Challenger will run as a second section of the Los Angeles Limited, make precisely the same time. Fare and Pullman on the Los Angeles Limited between Chicago and Los Angeles is $82.28. Coach fare on The Challenger between the same points will...
...Challenger passengers, coach as well as tourist, there will be a registered trained nurse, porter service, free drinking cups and free pillows day or night. Women who do not have the price of a tourist Pullman may ride in Women's De Luxe Coaches, relax in a Ladies' Lounge. On the Limited, a passenger would have a hard time eating for less than...
...trains until January 1938. The world's greatest over-water roadway has two decks, the top one for six automobile lanes, the bottom for three truck lanes and two train tracks to be used by Southern Pacific interurban trains and Key Route tramways. That does not mean that Pullman passengers from New York will now be able to ride through to San Francisco. Only lightweight suburban railway cars, no regular main-line trains, will be allowed to cross Bay Bridge. There are no pedestrian walks...