Glengyle

Glengyle

Build Date: 1910

Builder: The Pullman Company

Glengyle was part of an order built in 1910 and had accommodations consisting of 7 compartments and 2 drawing rooms. The car was used in Florida-New York service on the Atlantic Coast Line but ended its career on the Southern Railway. The car was in use as a dormitory by the Texas & Northern before donation to the State Fair of Texas Age of Steam exhibit in 1964. Today the Glengyle is the only existing car of 10,000 cars of its configuration and is the earliest known survivor of the fleet of heavyweight, all-steel sleepers built by the Pullman Company. Glengyle represents a shift in technology from cars of wooden construction to steel, a change which brought improved safety to rail travel. It has been designated an engineering landmark by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.