QUESTIONS 41 – 47 REFER TO THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE.
1.
During the heyday of the railroads, when America's rail system provided the bulk of the
country's passenger and freight transportation, various types of railroad cars were in
service to accomplish the varied tasks handled by the railroads. One type of car that was
not available for public use prior to the Civil War, however, was a sleeping car; ideas
for sleeping cars abounded at the time, but these ideas were unworkable. It unfortunately
took the death of a president to make the sleeping car a viable reality.