I have copied a section of the Railroad Fares and Pullman Standard Sleeping Car Rates table from a timetable dated July 1941. See the below. Does the Railroad Fare include the Pullman Sleeping Car Rate to add up to the full price? Does the Railroad Fare plus the Pullman Standard Sleeping Car Rates add up to the full price? For the accommodation, is one combined ticket or two separate tickets required?
This is how I’ve always understood it. In the pre-WW II era when Pullman still owned and operated its own cars, one would need two tickets potentially. One ticket for the Railroad Fare from the transporting line(s) route(s) and another separate ticket for the Pullman Standard Sleeping Car Rate, based on the selected accommodation(s) from the Pullman Company. The railroad or travel agent at the location where the tickets were purchased would handle the transaction fees and issue the related documents. The agent provided a single point of contact for ticketing the traveling customer(s). I’m not sure how this worked after Pullman sold its cars to the individual railroads. However, suspect it still involved a single agent transaction.