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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.
An excursion train pulled by Milwaukee Road 261 with a full-length Super Dome car in 2008 The lower level of a Milwaukee Road Super Dome car in 1952 just before the car was put in regular service A dome lounge is a type of domed railroad passenger car that includes lounge, cafe, dining or other space on the upper level or both levels of the car.
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 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 two postwar cars moved to the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad's Florida Special, a seasonal New York-Florida train. At the end of April Mountain View was sold into private ownership. [15] Several cars survive. Penn Central, successor to the Pennsylvania, donated Tower View to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in 1970. [16]
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)
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.