21 Facts About Pullman Company

Pullman Company, founded by George Pullman, was a manufacturer of railroad cars in the mid-to-late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the United States.

Pullman Company developed the sleeping car, which carried his name into the 1980s.

Pullman Company did not just manufacture the cars, it operated them on most of the railroads in the United States, paying railroad companies to couple the cars to trains.

Once a household name due to their large market share, the Pullman Company is known for the bitter Pullman Strike staged by their workers and union leaders in 1894.

Pullman Company built its last standard heavyweight sleeping car in February 1931.

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Pullman Company-Standard remained in the rail car manufacturing business until 1982.

In 1940, just as orders for lightweight cars were increasing and sleeping car traffic was growing, the United States Department of Justice filed an anti-trust complaint against Pullman Incorporated in the U S District Court at Philadelphia .

In 1943, Pullman Company Standard established a shipbuilding division and entered wartime small ship design and construction.

Pullman Company built the boats in 40-ton blocks which were assembled in a fabrication shop on 111th Street and moved to the yard on gondola cars.

Pullman Company ranked 56th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts.

Pullman Company-Standard built its last sleeping car in 1956 and its last lightweight passenger cars in 1965, an order of ten coaches for Kansas City Southern.

Pullman Company built subway cars for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, which assigned them to the Red Line.

In November 1985, Pullman bought Peabody International and the new company took the new name of Pullman Peabody.

In late April 1880, George Pullman announced his plans to build a company town and factory.

George Pullman Company's governing concept placed the town not within the city limits of Chicago but in the adjoining town of Hyde Park.

In February 1904, the Pullman Company was given a court order to sell the company town but delayed compliance until 1907.

Today, Pullman Company is a Chicago neighborhood, and a historical landmark district on the state, National Historic Landmark and National Register of Historic Places lists.

Pullman Company operated several facilities in other areas of the US.

When George Pullman Company began hiring porters in 1868, he sought people who had been trained to be the perfect servants.

Pullman Company built the body of the very first all-new PCC car, a prototype called "model B", in 1934, but the first production-series Pullman Company PCC cars were not built until 1938 .

One of the Pullman Company-built trolley buses that are still in service in Valparaiso, Chile, in 2014.