While picking up a takeout order from the Holiday Inn café in West Yellowstone, Montana last summer, I was taken aback. Situated in front of the hotel is a historic Pullman train car. I ascended the metal platform stairs and entered.
A true back-in-time experience awaited. And, as I am already exceptionally enamored with trains and train travel, this historical treasure piqued my sensibilities.
I learned from a framed display in the train car that it was a Pullman and part of Union Pacific‘s Oregon Short Line [OSL] of 1903. George Pullman in the mid-19th century developed luxury train cars, sometimes referred to as “palace cars.”…