I took this photo on a recent family visit to the Illinois Railway Museum, located in Union Illinois. This is a view aboard a preserved 1920's era heavyweight standard passenger car from the former Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad/ In the days before airline travel, many people including celebrities traveled across country via the many passenger trains and railroads that traversed our nation.
We are inside the Parlor section of a Parlor /Sleeping car. Just beyond the hallway/ corridor in the backround, are Berths /folding Bunk Beds that are covered by curtains in the hallway. This type of low budget semi private room arrangement, is what one would see in the old Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy Movies, when they did episodes involving overnight passenger train travel.
A far cry from todays Amtrak accomodations, but this once was the industry standard.
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