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The drawing room was the most spacious (and expensive) private room generally available on a railroad car. They usually could accommodate 3 adults in comfort, for riding, dining or sleeping, and were equipped with a private toilet annex. Prior to the Amtrak Superliners, the only larger private rooms were the "master rooms" found only in a few New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroad observation-sleepers, or the conference rooms found in a couple of PRR parlor cars. As far as I know, drawing rooms were found only in certain sleeping and parlor cars (including some business and observation cars), but never in coaches. Drawing rooms were introduced during the time when passenger cars were constructed of wood; the last drawing-room equipped sleepers to be built were the "Ocean"-series cars built by Pullman-Standard in 1955 for Union Pacific.
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