Tim :
You'll doubtless get a few answers, but they should all say about the same thing. The through sleepers were operated by the Pullman Company as car lines from origin to destination. After about 1945, the Pullman Company was owned by a consortium of railroads, but still operated independently. The railroads owned the cars and leased them back to the Pullman Company for operation.
Pullman could run any car on a car line. Thus, there were often "foreign" road sleepers on Eeie, DL&W and EL -- and their sleepers were often seen elsewhere. A lot of this changing around was seasonal: cars used somewhere in winter would spend the summer in other service.
Reservations were handled by a central office, to avoid double selling of space. Space was allocated to a station; sale of that space by any other station had to be cleared by the central bureau.
Randy Brown
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The DL&W (and for a few years the EL) and the NKP had through sleeping car service between New York and Chicago. I was wondering how this space would have been sold and did it matter who's car was where? . . .
Tim
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