Description:
Builder's photo showing a blunt-end observation-coach on the Pere Marquette passenger train. To eliminate turing the trains, the Pere Marquette Railroad ordered four cars in 1946 from Pullman-Standard with rear-end controls for bi-directional operations. Each consist carried two of the 56-seat, blunt-end observation-coaches. Their stay on the railroad was short-lived, however, as the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad purchased all of them in 1950. The Pere Marquette train ran between Detroit and Grand Rapids, Michigan and faced difficult competition from the state's automotive industry. Most trains were abandoned in the 1960s, although passenger trains are quietly staging a comeback in the Wolverine State with Amtrak's Michigan Services. For a 3/4s view of one of these cars, see record 1223.
Creator Description:
Joseph McAllister started work for Pullman in 1928. He studied photography in a home study course and became a photograher's assistant in 1937. He chief photographer from 1945 to about 1950.
