If you rode railroad sleeping cars in North America, you usually rode Pullmans. In Europe, you could wind up on a sleeper from one of several companies.

The German Sleeper and Dining Car Company (Deutsche Schlafwagen- und Speisewagengesellschaft, later the Deutsche Service-Gesellschaft der Bahn or DSG) was a subsidiary of German Federal Railways (Deutsche Bundesbahn).

DSG was formed in 1949, when it was separated from the old Mitropa company, which remained in operation in East Germany. It existed until 1994 when it was re-combined with Mitropa to form Mitropa AG.

Another well-known sleeping car operator in Europe was the International Sleeping Car Company, more widely known as the Compagnie International des Wagons-Lits, or CIWL. One of this company's best-known trains was the famed "Orient Express".

This DSG sleeper was operating on an international service at the central rail terminal in Kiel, Germany

Photographed by Thomas McCann, July, 1976.
Added to the photo archive by Thomas McCann, June 2, 2010.
Railroad: Deutsche Bahn.

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