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A relic of the era when railroads offered luxurious, reliable travel accommodations, the Dinwiddie County Pullman Car was built in 1926 by the Pullman Company of Chicago, world-renowned manufacturer of railroad cars. Founded in 1868, the Pullman Company produced handsome, comfortable, and in some cases palatial, rolling stock. It became so successful that Pullman became a generic name for sleeping cars. The Dinwiddie County, originally named the Mount Atlas, is an excellent representative of the heavy-weight, all steel sleeper, and is one of two known surviving cars of its type. It differed from standard sleeping cars by having an observation lounge. In 1950 it was assigned to exclusive use by the Norfolk and Western Railway Co. The Pullman Company sold the Dinwiddie County Pullman Car to the Old Dominion Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society in 1965. The car is housed in the Hallsboro Yard in western Chesterfield County.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
Programs
DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
