In the discussion on Mr. C. Douglas Fox’s recent paper on the
Pennsylvania railway, Mr. Barlow, the engineer of the Midland, observed
that there was a certain attractive power about a Pullman’s carriage,
which ought not to be overlooked, a power which brought passengers to it
who would not otherwise travel by railway. A Pullman’s carriage weighed
somewhere about twenty tons. The cost of hauling that weight was about
1½d. per mile; that was the sum which the Midland Company proposed to
charge for first-class passengers, so that one first-class passenger
would pay the haulage of the carriage. If the attractive power of the
carriage brought more than one first-class passenger it would of course
pay itself.
_Herepath’s Railway Journal_, Jan. 23, 1875.