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A heavyweight observation on display at the Illinois Railway Museum LNWR observation car No 1503 at Kingscote, Bluebell Railway. An observation car/carriage/coach (in US English, often abbreviated to simply observation or obs) is a type of railroad passenger car, generally operated in a passenger train as the rearmost carriage, with windows or a platform on the rear of the car for passengers ...
A dome car is a type of railway passenger car that has a glass dome on the top of the car where passengers can ride and see in all directions around the train. It also can include features of a coach, lounge car, dining car, sleeping car or observation. Beginning in 1945, a total of 236 were delivered for North American railroad companies.
Georgia 300 [1] [2] is a heavyweight observation car from the golden era of rail travel that was built by the Pullman Standard Co. shops in 1930. [1] [3] Sporting a Packard blue with silver striping livery, the train car operated as a lounge car named the General Polk on the New Orleans-New York Crescent Limited (operated by the L&N, West Point Route, Southern, and Pennsylvania [4]), and was ...
Photo postcard of one of the Union Pacific's Astra Dome observation cars. Date: From the clothing in the photo, circa 1950s. Union Pacific no longer offered passenger service after the 1971 Amtrak takeover. Source: eBay item card front. card back: Author: Union Pacific Railroad. Permission (Reusing this file)
The Beaver Tails were a fleet of streamlined parlor-observation passenger cars built by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("the Milwaukee Road") between 1934–1938. They served as the observation cars on the famous Hiawatha trains from 1935 until 1948, when they were displaced by the new Skytop Lounge. The cars' name was ...
The four prewar cars were 84 feet 7 inches (25.78 m) long and weighed 116,400 pounds (52,800 kg). Each car had a vestibule at one end; at the other was a rounded-off observation area. [1]
ACF built a total of 35 cars including coaches, dining cars, and observation cars, while PS built 5 for Union Pacific. After Union Pacific exited the passenger business in 1971 the Auto-Train Corporation purchased most of the fleet and operated them for an additional ten years.
The Sun Lounges were a fleet of three streamlined sleeper-lounge cars built by Pullman-Standard for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) in 1956. The cars featured a distinctive glazed roof area meant to capture the ambience of a dome car in a lower profile, as tunnels on the East Coast of the United States prevented the use of dome cars there.