Sleeping car companies acquired by Pullman’s Palace Car Company. Founded in 1870, the Erie and Atlantic Sleeping Coach Company was bought by Pullman in 1873. The Southern Transportation Company, founded in 1865 and controlled by the Central Transportation Company, was leased by Pullman in 1870 for $20,000 per year as part of the larger Central Transportation Co. deal. The Southern’s lines became part of Pullman’s new subsidiary, the Pullman Southern Car Company. In 1878, Pullman purchased the Southern Transportation Co. for $90,000. In 1913, Pullman purchased the sleeping car business of New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, in the process gaining 252 sleeping, parlor, and composite New Haven cars.

Miscellaneous records of the Erie and Atlantic Sleeping Coach Company, 1872-1883, the Southern Transportation Company, 1865-1890, and the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, 1913. Erie and Atlantic records include financial and tax statements, 1872-1880, and correspondence, 1883. Southern Transportation Company records include stock certificates nos. 1-716, 1865-1878, and nos. 717-750, 1890, and conductors receipts and expenditures, 1866. New York, New Haven, and Hartford records include a list of cars purchased by Pullman on Jan. 1, 1913.

See also records of the Pullman Southern Car Company, Record Group 10/00/06, and Southern Transportation Company conductor receipt and expenditure records, Record Group 09/00/03, Public Relations Dept. History Files, Pullman Company Archives.