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==Railway usage== The term ''drawing room'' was historically also applied to certain [[passenger train]] accommodations, designating some of the most spacious and expensive private accommodations available on board a [[sleeping car]] or [[private railroad car]]. An example, named as such, was a [[Midland Railway]] "Drawing Room Car" in 1874 that was made by [[Pullman Company|Pullman]] and imported from the United States.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/terry_browne/6821217682/ | title=Midland Railway 1874 Pullman Clerestory Coach (American import) : Display | date=February 2007 }}</ref> In [[North America]], it meant a room which slept three or more persons, with a private [[washroom]].<ref>[http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess_T2488/ "Three is no crowd... In the Drawing Room Built by Pullman-Standard," 1945 magazine ad for Pullman sleeping cars, Ad*Access, Duke University Libraries Digital Collections], accessed 9 November 2013.</ref> Although [[Amtrak]] has retired its sleeping cars that were built with drawing rooms, they are still used by [[Via Rail Canada]]. The traditional nomenclature is seen as archaic, hence they are marketed as "triple bedrooms".
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