railroad car. Also known as: Pullman car, Pullman coach.
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During the day, the sleeper looked like a regular, if especially lavish, passenger car, but during the night it transformed into a 2-story hotel on wheels. Seats were unfolded into lower sleeping berths, while upper berths, instead of lowering from the ceiling on pulleys, folded out from it.
…comfortable nighttime travel was the Pullman sleeper, which was commercially introduced by George M. Pullman and Ben Field in 1865. The sleeping car made its appearance in Britain and Europe somewhat later and was variously named with words meaning “car” and “bed” or “sleep,” as in French wagon-lit or German…
A lounge car (sometimes referred to as a buffet lounge, buffet car, club car or grill car) is a type of passenger car on a train, in which riders can purchase food and drinks.
To put things simply, a sleeper is essentially a car that other drivers might not expect to perform in a certain way. You could even say other drivers might underestimate these vehicles. A sleeper vehicle is fast, powerful, and efficient, but not always flashy.
Passenger cars, or coaches, vary in their internal fittings: In standard-gauge railway cars, seating is usually configured into ranges from three to five seats across the width of the car, with an aisle in between (resulting in arrangements of 2+1, 2+2 or 3+2 seats) or at the side.
Pullman developed his first railroad sleeping car, the Pullman sleeper or palace car in 1864. They were designed after the packet boats that traveled the Erie Canal of his youth.
The people who do Freight Hopping are known as Hobos. The rail yard security guys who you really don't want to bump into are called Bulls and seeing how far you can get via freight trains and coping with whatever the yards in which you arrive throw at you is called exciting. •