Pullman: The Palace Cars and the Town He Owned

George Pullman built luxury sleeping cars that ran on three-fourths of America's railroads, then built a town south of Chicago where he owned every house, store and church. This is the true story of the rents, the wage cuts, the 1894 strike that stopped the nation's trains, and the porters whose union outlasted the company town. Subscribe to US Industries and Fortunes: https://www.youtube.com/@usindustries... More from US Industries and Fortunes: The Vanderbilts: How America's Richest Family Lost It All —    • The Vanderbilts: How America's Richest Fam...   Hoover Dam: The Machines That Moved a River —    • Hoover Dam: The Machines That Moved a River   Chapters 0:00 The House-Raiser 3:07 A Better Bed on Wheels 7:06 A Town Out of a Swamp 10:54 One Landlord 14:37 The Fair and the Panic 19:13 The Walkout 22:35 Mail Cars and Soldiers 26:30 Surrender 29:11 The Grave and the Court 31:28 Steel and a Lincoln 32:47 The Men Called George Did a relative work on this, or live through it? Tell us in the comments — and tell us what we should cover next. The narration is an AI voice. The photographs are archival; the painted scenes are illustrations, not photographs. Sources A Brief Overview of the Pullman Story - National Park Service The Pullman Story Part 2 - National Park Service The Strike of 1894 - National Park Service Presidential Proclamation -- Pullman National Monument Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Union Formed - Library of Congress Pullman Company records - Newberry Library Pullman Palace Car Company Collection - Smithsonian Institution Report on the Chicago Strike of June-July, 1894 (U.S. Strike Commission, 1895) Image credits Public domain, via: Library of Congress; Detroit Publishing; Internet Archive; Smithsonian Institution from United States; Bain News Service; National Archives and Records Administration; Harper's Weekly; Harris & Ewing; Wikimedia Commons Gerald Farinas (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons Buzz Brown Photographic Studios (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons Matthew Dillon from Hollywood, CA, USA (CC BY 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons Fishnogeek (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons Subscribe for a new episode of American industrial history every week. #GeorgePullman #PullmanStrike #CompanyTown #RailroadHistory #ChicagoHistory #AmericanHistory #IndustrialHistory #HistoryDocumentary