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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 ...
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 ...
Their equipment included the popular "Tip-Top-Tavern" and the distinctive "Beaver Tail" lounge observation cars. From the beginning the Hiawathas were known for speed and stylish design. [ 1 ] Such was the success of the train that the Milwaukee Road would introduce new equipment again in 1936, 1937, 1938, and 1942.
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 ...
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]
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)
“A car with four people inside had crashed through the guardrail and gone airborne, landing upside down on the railroad tracks at the bottom of a 50-foot embankment,” the fire department reported.
New York Central Railroad Baggage car #8222; Built in 1921. Displayed by ITM from the 1970s to 2018. Retained by city of Noblesville as a static display. New York Central Railroad Observation car #10634; Built by Pullman Standard in 1948 for the 20th Century Limited; Named Sandy Creek. Numbered 10571 by NYC in 1952, renumbered 10634 in 1958.