Editor's note: Columnist Philip Potempa is reporting while traveling by train to New York City for New Year's Eve in Times Square. With the exception of our own South Shore train line and a couple of ...

The Hotel Florence was opulent and luxurious when the Pullman Palace Car Company controlled an area of Chicago's Far South ...

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It’s a great thing that all kinds of vintage train cars, either rusty or sumptuous, some dating from World War II and others from the 1900s, are available today as vacation rentals. Instead of being ...

As the Lackawanna Railroad’s crack Phoebe Snow pulled out of Hoboken and roared west last week, a private Pullman car was attached to the rear, with a party of eight elderly Negroes aboard. The leader ...

CHICAGO - The owner of the Aberdeen Carolina & Western Railway has donated a 1928 Pullman car to the Historic Pullman Foundation for preservation and display at the Pullman National Historical Park ...

Its brass gleaming, its larder bursting and its water tanks brimming, the private Pullman car Roald Amundsen glided softly out of Manhattan one afternoon last month behind the New York Central’s ...

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For Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong, even their fame couldn’t fully protect them from the terrifying violence of Jim Crow. But the railroad, particularly the elegant Pullman sleeping ...

Olmsted County United Way officials allocated more than $2.08 million raised during the 1998 fund-raising campaign. Rochester Mayo had five players named to the Big Nine All-Conference hockey team.

Author and professor Kenneth Schoon will give a talk on his latest book "Pullman: The Man, the Company, the Historical Park" at the Calumet City Historical Society Center & Museum. He will address the ...