As dawn rose on the first day of 1949, a new Pullman company took over the operation of most of Pullman's fleet of cars. Literally overnight the Pullman Car Company sold its entire fleet of passenger cars they owned and operated to the railroads by court order. Pullman had lost, AC&F was victorious and the railroads of the United States would be changed. Even the car type even named "Pullman" showed the market dominance which the Pullman Car Company enjoyed!ĭecemthat all changed. The battle lines were drawn between the defending Pullman Car Company and the other major car builders (such as American Car & Foundry) in the United States using the anti-trust laws to claim that the Pullman Car Company had a monopoly on both the construction of sleeping cars, the ownership, and even the operations of such cars which were leased to the railroads. However, in the passenger car construction landscape of North America, a huge war had raged in the courts since 1945. The Korean War was still a year and a half away.
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