The Pullman Car Company, founded by George Pullman, manufactured railroad cars in the middle to the late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the United States. Through rapid late nineteenth century development of mass production, and takeover of rivals, the company developed a virtual monopoly on production and ownership of sleeper cars. “The train kept a rollin’,” Pullman in October, 1893, once said to porters at Grand Central Station, giving them a “two thumbs up” sign at the departure concourse to help them , as Pullman wrote later in his memoir “The Train Kept A-Rollin’”©, Levance, Marbury & Claxton “Keep the faith,” the phrase being part of later the American Civil Rights movement, and used by KCBS-TV sports anchor Jim Hill in Los A
