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I was the first one in our circle of poker chip collectors to identify the chips. I noticed the same logo on the backs of a deck of playing cards advertising the famous Pullman Company (Pullman Palace).
I have very few red chips left. I'd sell the set of four (while they last) for $20 postpaid via PayPal, or $19 postpaid via QuickPay. I'd sell a set of three (white, blue and yellow) for $12 postpaid via PayPal, or $11 postpaid via QuickPay. Checks or money orders OK too, at the lower rate. With Çhase Bank's QuickPay, instead of PayPal, there are no fees at all (to the buyer or seller) -- the free service transfers funds between accounts -- fast, safe, free and easy. Only one of the two parties need have a Chase bank account (I have a Chase account). Can also use credit card charges for payment -- all free. You could email me for details. Or go to
www.Chase.com/QuickPay
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via Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_car
The sleeping car or sleeper (often wagon-lits) is a railroad passenger car that can accommodate all its passengers in beds of one kind or another, primarily for the purpose of making nighttime travel more restful. The first such cars saw sporadic use on American railroads in the 1830s and could be configured for coach seating during the day. Some of the more luxurious types have private rooms, that is to say fully- and solidly-enclosed rooms that are not shared with strangers.
In the United States today, all regularly-scheduled sleeping car services are operated by Amtrak. Amtrak offers sleeping cars on most of its overnight trains, using modern cars of the private-room type exclusively. In Canada, all regularly scheduled sleeping car services are operated by VIA Rail Canada, using a mixture of relatively-new cars and refurbished mid-century ones; the latter cars include both private rooms and "open section" accommodations (described later in this article).
The Cumberland Valley Railroad pioneered sleeping car service in the spring of 1839, with a car named "Chambersburg," between Chambersburg and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A couple of years later a second car, the "Carlisle," was introduced into service.[1][2]
The man who ultimately made the sleeping car business profitable in the United States was George Pullman, who began by building a luxurious sleeping car (named Pioneer) in 1865. The Pullman Company, founded as the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1867, owned and operated most sleeping cars in the United States until the mid-20th century, attaching them to passenger trains run by the various railroads; there were also some sleeping cars that were operated by Pullman but owned by the railroad running a given train. During the peak years of American passenger railroading, several all-Pullman trains existed, including the 20th Century Limited on the New York Central Railroad, the Broadway Limited on the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Panama Limited on the Illinois Central Railroad, and the Super Chief on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
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=========== QuickPay, a Brief Introduction & Overview ============
QuickPay is the great new FAST, EASY, FREE and SAFE way to pay anyone online who has an email address and a bank account. As long as both parties are enrolled in the Chase Bank QuickPay program and at least one of them has a Chase bank account, either party may pay or receive funds from the other for free! Chase's QuickPay is not a bank account. It is merely an EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer)/ACH (Automated Clearing House)-type service that routes funds from one person's bank account or credit card to another person's bank account. You see, Chase acts as the middle man. Enrolling in QuickPay, you just give Chase no sensitive information, just the kind of information that might be found on your checks: your name, address and phone number; and the name of your bank along with account number and bank routing number. Once the enrollment is completed (a one-time event), Chase can relay requests and payments between the accounts, all for free.
In Europe, they have practically stopped writing checks. Virtually all payments are made by online transfers between bank accounts!
In brief:
¶ QuickPay is COMPLETELY FREE for both the buyer and seller, payer and payee.
¶ ONLY ONE OF THE PARTIES MUST HAVE A CHASE BANK ACCOUNT -- The non-Chase party to the transfer of funds can use just his present bank account; he does NOT have to open a Chase bank account. Again, only one of the parties (either the payer or payee) must be a Chase customer (I am).
¶ QuickPay is COMPLETELY SAFE --the NON-Chase customer (lets say, you) who enrolls in Chase QuickPay gives NO personal information (like social security number, birth date, mother's maiden name, etc.) to anyone, not even to Chase. Chase is the third largest bank in the US.)
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Robert
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