In 1925, dignity came for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters when the organization got a charter from the American Federation of Labor. The men were issued name tags. Since the Pullman ...

Railroads formed the backbone of America. Starting in the 1800s, trains hauled millions of pounds of freight and passengers ...

The little-known story of the wives and maids who helped propel the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters to a groundbreaking agreement with the Pullman Company. Rosina Corrothers-Tucker had spent days ...

It is a 1924 Pullman sleeper car that was donated to the Colebrookdale Railroad. Crews spent two days trucking it in from Duncansville, Pennsylvania, a borough near Altoona. "We were coming down ...

The legacy and impact of George Pullman and the Pullman Porters are featured in murals displayed along the Kennedy Expressway.

Like, real reach-out-and-touch-'em old-school locomotives. Pullman sleeper cars, dining cars and a complete passenger train from pre-World War II days are just some of the pieces that constitute ...

The Pullman model — a long-wheelbase six-seat variant — has been particularly popular with this select clientele. This week, the German automaker announced the latest version of the car, the ...

Long-term travel required more comfortable accommodations, which opened the door for the first luxury sleeper service, created by George Pullman of the Pullman Palace Car Company. The sleeper cars ...

Phillip Randolph formed the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. The National Park Service notes that at the time, porters made up 44% of the Pullman workforce, and Pullman was the largest ...

The car where the fire occurred Wednesday was the “Birch River,” a Pullman sleeper with 10 roomettes and six bedrooms, built in 1949. Damage from vandalism was judged to be irreversible 15 ...