| 4 | PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD | June, 1928 |
 One of the earliest railroad passenger cars usedin this country. This primitive car was little more than an ordinarystage coach equipped with flanged wheels for rail operation. service on the Pennsylvania Railroad. All passenger cars then in normaloperation on the Company's steam lines will be exclusively of steelconstruction throughout. | Twenty-two years ago, in 1906,the Pennsylvania Railroad built and placed in service the first all-steelpassenger coach to be constructed and operated by any railroad. Inthe same year the steel car was made standard for the Pennsylvania RailroadSystem and the construction of wooden cars was discontinued. ThePennsylvania was the first railroad to adopt all-steel passenger eqipmentas standard and the first to place in service an all-steel steam passengertrain. In 1914, at the
outbreak of the World War, so rapidly had the Pennsylvania built steelcars that more than a third of the road's passenger equipment was of all-steelconstruction.
With the delivery of the new cars now on order,the System's passenger car
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 | A further step in the evolution of the coach. this car operated on the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad,now a part of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in 1847. It was similarto the car of 1834, except that it was longer, provided accomodations formore passengers and had larger and heavier trucks. |
 | A still closer approach to the modern car. this is the standard Pennsylvania Railroad coach of 1875. Althoughof all-wood construction, with gas lamps and a wood stove for heat, thiscoach, in its day, typified the highest type of development in railroadpassenger car design. It was 53 feet long, seating 54 people. |
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