Photographs of interiors and exteriors of Pullman cars, including images of cars involved in accidents, heavyweight and lightweight steel cars, troop cars, trucks, wood cars, and miscellaneous types of cars and car equipment, some showing the Pullman Car Works in the background. Wood and steel car accident photos, 1905 - 1934, show mainly exterior views, but also some interior shots of damage to cars. Photographs of heavyweights, lightweights, wood cars, and troop cars, usually including both interior and exterior images, were most frequently taken to document completed orders. Troop cars include hospital cars outfitted during World War I and hospital cars, troop cars, and troop sleepers manufactured during World War II. Among the lightweight photos are views of the new Slumbercoach, 1957, and of Budd cars ordered by Pullman, and among the wood cars are images of Pullman cars displayed at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and the 1904 St. Louis Exposition, and various private cars. There are also miscellaneous shots of bedrooms, berths, various car components, a chapel car, foreign cars and trains, and a few Mann’s Boudoir and Wagner Palace cars.

Detailed inventories, listing individual car names for accidents, heavyweight steel cars, and wood cars are also available in the library.

For additional photographs of car interiors and exteriors, see car specifications in Record Group 05/02/03, Car drawings, Specifications, etc., Pullman Company Archives.

See also oversize box at the end of this record group (RG 13) for more Heavyweight and Wood Car photographs.