This is part of a very interesting series I did for the Southern Pacific Company. Though the Pullman cars were not the property of the Southern Pacific, the railroad would of course sell accommodations on the Pullman cars. The pullman company had no pictures of accommodations. Most people who hadn't ever ridden a train had no idea what the cars looked like, what a bunk was like, an upper berth, a stateroom, dressing rooms, toilet facilities or any of the other complicated ways of sleeping semi-publicly or privately on the trains. So in the railroad yards I spent days with a porter assigned to me who made up all the accommodations in the Pullman cars so that people could be shown what they were getting for their money and what seeming luxuries were being provided.(Roger Sturtevant interview with Joyce Minnick, 1977)