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There were two pullmans by the way.    Originally it was all one company until the government made them divest or split.     One part operated the first class cars on the through trains.     These cars were generally the sleepers and parlor cars.     These were the accomodations that the more wealthy travelers used.    The employees that staffed these cars worked for Pullman, not the RR.     I think they still operated cars into the lightweight era.  Pullman operated no coaches or baggage cars or mail cars. I am pretty sure they did not operate diners.

The second business they had was building cars.    They built all kinds of cars I think even in the heavy weight era.    In the lightweight/streamline era they built all sorts of things that included, coaches, diners, sleepers, baggage, mail etc.    These cars were bought by the various RRs.    Pullman had two major competitors that I am aware.   The bigger one was Budd and the smaller I think was ACF.    If you read the history of the building of the streamliners,  you will often see Pullman or Budd listed at the builder of the train cars, and sometimes ACF.

So if you thinking of cars built by pullman, it could be lots of kinds of cars, but if you are thinking of the nice first class cars operated by Pullman, it should only be Sleepers and Parlour cars.

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