Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1930, Page 126

| ) | | liHE RAILROADS 1IN BOTH THE NORTH AND THE SouTtH PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART INTHE CIVIL WAR CARRYING TROOPS AND SUPPLIES. — “THE MoST FAMOUS ENGINE OF THAT DAY WAS THE "GENERA oF THE WESTERN AND ATLAN- TIC RAILWAY, RUNNING BE- TWEEN ATLANTA AND> CHATTANOCOGA . Yl LT N 1862 AUDREWS' RAID- ERS OF THE LINION ARMY, DISGUISED AS CIVILIANS, SEIZED THE "GENERAL" FROM THE CONFEDERATES AT Bia SHANTY,GEORGIA, AND RAN IT TOWARD> CHATTAS NOOGA WITH THE OBJECT j8 OF BURNING THE BRIDGES “|AND CRIPPLING THE RAIL- FE ROAD. THE RAIDERS WERE /// Z. Z2=1 1oLy PURSUED, —— Y i HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY -- u 1859 GEORGE PULLMAN, SEEING THE NEED> FOR. MORE COMFORIABLE- SLEEPING FACILITIES ON RAILWAY TRAINS, BEGAN BURDING SLEEPING CARS. THE FIRST SLEEPING CAR MADE ITS INITIAL TRIP ON THE NIGHT OF SEPTEMBER 1,1859, FROM BLOOMIMGTON, TLLINOIS, To CHICAGO . CLATER THE FIRST PULLMAN DINER WAS INTRODUCED> ON THE CracAGO AND ALTON RAILROAD. -J-E PuLiMan CompAw/ NOT ONLY MANUFACTUREDP THESE SPECIAL CARS BUT OPERATED THEM OVER MOST OF THE RAILROADS. THE CnMM SHIFTED ITS CARS FROM ONE RAILROAD TO ANOTHER ACCORDING TO THE EXISTING DEMAND. ——e IN A TIN BASIN. THERE WAS NO PORTER. IN THE WERE RAISED AND THE MATTRESSES PILED AT ONE ENP OF THE CAR ./ © DAY TRAVEL BY RAIL WAS OF BUT-ONE CLASS; — EVERYBODY RODE IN THE STANDARD DAY COACH. — ¢ A TYPICAL DAY 2 COACH — 1863 HE ADOPTION OF THE AIR BRAKE,INVENTED BY GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE IN 1868, ADDE CONSIDERABLY TO THE SAFETY AND COMFORY, OF RAILWAY TRAVE in ANSWER TO A DEMAND FOR MORE LUXURIOUS TRANS~ PORTATION THAN THAT OFFERED BY THE 'ORDINARY DAY COACH THE PULLMAN COMPA IN 186 BEGAN PRO- DUCING SPECIAL CARS| 1N THAT YEAR THE FIRST DRAWING- ROOM CARS WERE BUILY. THEY WERE AT FIRST CALLED *PaLACE oR"PARLOR CARS BECAUSE OF THEIR ELEGANT FURNISHINGS. —° T GRAYSVILLE ,90 MILES AWAY, ANDREWS AND HIS MEN ABANDO THE GENERAL AND FLED INTO THE WOODS.MoST SLEEPING CAR OF THE E |GHTIE$ .HE SLEEPING CAR PROVED AN IMMEDIATE SUCCESS. TEN YEARS LATER PULLMAN SLEEPERS WERE LARGE AND AFFORDED EVERY COMFORT AN[> CONYENIENCE . ~ o s7or 11 TRAIN THE HAND BRAKES HAD 10 BE SET SEPARATELY ON EACH CAR WITH THE " RESULT THAT THE TRAIN CAME TO A HALT AFTER A SERIES OF VIOLENT JERKS AND JOLTS. BLE FOR THE ENGINEER TO APPLY ALL THE BRAIKES THROUGHOUT THE LENGTH OF THE- TRAIN AUTOMATICALLY AND> ALMOST SIMUL= TANEOUSLY. 70 BE- CONTINUED>.~