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During World War II, railroads quickly faced a shortage of available coaches and sleeping cars while moving an average of one million military personnel per month, so the federal government ordered durable troop sleepers from the Pullman Manufacturing Company. Built from a standard design, these functional sleepers were essentially boxcars with windows and bunks, and each car accommodated 29 men and one Pullman porter. After the war, troop sleepers were sold to railroads and converted into baggage cars, cabooses, refrigerator cars, and other uses. No. 7437 was abandoned in New York until the Western Maryland Railway purchased it in 1947 for maintenance of way service; it later operated as part of the Chessie System and retired in 1988.
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