英语词汇pullman car的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Pullman car. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination made the Pullman sleeping car a reality. George Mortimer Pullman (1831–97), a cabinetmaker, had experimented in building much-needed railway sleeping cars just before the Civil War but couldn’t sell his idea, even though he had made a successful test run with two converted coaches. In 1863 he invested $20,000, every penny he had, in a luxurious sleeping car called the Pioneer that he and his friend Ben Field built on the site of the present-day Chicago Union Station. But the Pioneer, unfor- tunately, was too wide to pass through existing stations and too high to pass under bridges. For two years it lay on a siding, a well-appointed waste, until President Lincoln was assassinated in 1865. Every area through which Lincoln’s black-creped fu- neral train passed brought out its finest equipment, and Illinois, the Rail Splitter’s birthplace, could be no exception. The Pull- man Pioneer was the best that the state had, and Illinois spared no expense in promptly cutting down station platforms and raising bridges so that the luxurious car could join the presi- dential funeral train in its run from Chicago to Springfield. The funeral party traveling in the Pioneer was greatly impressed by the car. As a result, the Michigan Central cleared the line for the big car and other railroads around the country began to fol- low suit. Pullman soon went into partnership with Andrew Carnegie in the Pullman Palace Car Company and his sleeping cars, or Pullmans, eventually made him a millionaire many times over.

词汇	pullman car
词源	Pullman car. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination made the Pullman sleeping car a reality. George Mortimer Pullman (1831–97), a cabinetmaker, had experimented in building much-needed railway sleeping cars just before the Civil War but couldn’t sell his idea, even though he had made a successful test run with two converted coaches. In 1863 he invested $20,000, every penny he had, in a luxurious sleeping car called the Pioneer that he and his friend Ben Field built on the site of the present-day Chicago Union Station. But the Pioneer, unfor- tunately, was too wide to pass through existing stations and too high to pass under bridges. For two years it lay on a siding, a well-appointed waste, until President Lincoln was assassinated in 1865. Every area through which Lincoln’s black-creped fu- neral train passed brought out its finest equipment, and Illinois, the Rail Splitter’s birthplace, could be no exception. The Pull- man Pioneer was the best that the state had, and Illinois spared no expense in promptly cutting down station platforms and raising bridges so that the luxurious car could join the presi- dential funeral train in its run from Chicago to Springfield. The funeral party traveling in the Pioneer was greatly impressed by the car. As a result, the Michigan Central cleared the line for the big car and other railroads around the country began to fol- low suit. Pullman soon went into partnership with Andrew Carnegie in the Pullman Palace Car Company and his sleeping cars, or Pullmans, eventually made him a millionaire many times over.
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