Never understood why no one makes Pullman cars. They could run on almost any road so there would be a big market for them. Some should make them like K-line did with no road name, just Pullman. I've tried to find the K-line version at a reasonable price but they just don't come up often. Don
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Mth has done a number of full sets in Pullman from the silohuette days through the interiors sans figures and interiors with figures. Lionel has not done full sets, as they would not be prototipical, but have done the 20th Century sets with NYC and Pullman cars mixed. I don't believe Pullman made head end or dining cars lettered with their name.
20-4033 Interiors without figures. ( easily added)
20-4081 Interiors with figures.
Pete
You could also look for an MTH Premier set. According to the MTH website, they did a couple of sets of heavyweight cars. That was a ways back, so they probably won't be easy to find. Go to the advanced search, select Pullman from the drop-down list of roadnames.
Check out the Lionchief Page #98 in the current Lionel Signature edition. There are
even a combine and a baggage, however, length I cannot find listed, and these
look like shorty cars to me. Which is why I skimmed over them, but...there are seven
different cars, all lettered "Pullman".
The 18" K-Line cars are hard to find. The 15" K-Lines come up a little more often. Lionel reran the 15" cars under the K-Line by Lionel banner.
Pete
Thanks Pete, I'm looking for the 15 inch cars. Don
I think both Lionel and MTH made Pullman car sets. I've had them both.
I had a set of Lionel passenger cars I think were made for the Commodore Vanderbuilt back in the late 90's. As I remember, all the cars were Pullman, the baggage car was NYC.
Pete is aware of the set.
scale rail - Your post above is why I bought the sets. I model the Santa Fe, but Pullmans ran on all lines. At the time there wasn't any Santa Fe heavyweights except for early K-Line cars with trucks that fell apart. The Pullman branded heavyweights filled the bill. The NYC baggage car would have modeled a transcontinental foreign head end car.
Santa Fe like most other roads always had head end from other roads, especially on secondary trains.
BTW That NYC set seems like it is always available and usually sells for less than other similar sets. The cars are very nice, but they have silhouette passengers, but they are easily changed.
I'm not sure about the dates, but something else, the observation was Pullman on the side, but the drumhead was NYC.
Sam, I know K-line made them but I'm surprised more companies have not and are not making them. I would love to mix a few in my Milwaukee heavy weight trains. By the way in Richmond California there is a Pullman Ave. On that street is a huge cement building that once serviced Pullman cars. First shot is about 1950, second is present time. Don
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I have seen Pullman Madison Cars on eBay and they are advertised as being Lionel. Pullman cars; the original hotel on the rails run on just about every overnight passenger train up to the end of the 1950's. They would go well on a layout based in that era but the color always seemed to be dark green. .
I have thought about getting some of the "Pullman" lettered cars I have seen, but
with modeling a short line, I am wondering how many shortlines in Beebe and Clegg's
"Mixed Train Daily", ever saw a Pullman car except at their Class 1 interchange...?
Lionel just made the baby madison cars in pullman name & pullman green .
they were made to go with the Lion Chief + Alantics & Pacifics .
Williams by Bachmann made some pullman passengers cars, but with silhouettes in a 4 pack. They are very good looking and actually say "pullman" like the pictures above. I remember my friend buying them at York from Trainworld for $99 at the time (may be 3 years ago) and he runs them with everything since they go with any railroad.
I would love to mix a few in my Milwaukee heavy weight trains.
Don
All the Milwaukee Road historical reference books I have say that the Milwaukee mostly operated its own sleeper cars, and that when it did run cars owned or operated by Pullman they were painted in Milwaukee colors. I would think that any green Pullman car in a Milwaukee road sleeper train would be a loaner to cover for when a regular car was out of service.
I have the MTH silhouettes nice cars roll, good too. I also have a K-Line passenger car compared next to it MTH makes their scale version tall and shorter than K-Line.
Interesting about the Milwaukee...I am guessing there is a book on Pullman that
lists all the roads that ran them?
Check out the Lionchief Page #98 in the current Lionel Signature edition. There are
even a combine and a baggage, however, length I cannot find listed, and these
look like shorty cars to me. Which is why I skimmed over them, but...there are seven
different cars, all lettered "Pullman".
According to an eBay vendor cars in set 6-81749 are 13 1/2" coupler to coupler.
Norton is correct - the only cars lettered PULLMAN would be either sleepers (many different floor/window plans - including sleeper obs.) and parlor cars.
A little history helps understand why passenger cars were painted and lettered the way they were over the years. I'll use the PRR as an example but it applies to other railroads as well. Prior to 1947 the railroads owned head end, coach, and dining cars while Pullman owned and operated (Pullman crews) most sleeping and parlor cars. Ownership was reflected by the name centered on the letter board (an exception being train names on some letter boards). Thus in the case of the pre-war PRR’s trains letter boards had a mix of PULLMAN and PENNSYLVANIA depending on car type/ownership. Railroads with clout could arrange with the Pullman Company to paint sleepers and parlor cars assigned to their trains in the railroad’s colors - thus Pullmans dedicated to PRR routes were generally painted Tuscan red with black roofs.
In 1940 the US DOJ filed an anti-trust suit against the Pullman Company seeking to split Pullman's car building subsidiary (Pullman- Standard Car Manufacturing Company) from its car operations division. Pullman lost the case resulting in a reorganization of the company in which the Pullman Company (car operations) was sold to a consortium of 57 railroads. In 1947 the reorganized Pullman Company sold off most of their sleeper and parlor car fleet to individual railroads. The Pullman Company retained a small pool of heavyweight sleepers available via lease for traffic surges. Most railroads quickly repainted the cars bought from the Pullman Company (lightweight and heavyweight) in their postwar schemes - typically with the railroad name centered on the letter board. If the railroad owned car was crewed and operated by the Pullman Company PULLMAN was displayed in small letters near the doors. Heavyweight cars in Pullman pool service retained PULLMAN on the letter board. Through the 1950’s and early 60’s Pullman pool sleepers could be found with bodies painted two tone gray, Tuscan red, or Pullman green. All Pullman Company leases and operations ceased in 1968, after which the railroads crewed the remaining sleeping cars.
Ed Rappe