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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 ...
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)
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.
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.
The Great Domes were a fleet of six streamlined dome lounge cars built by the Budd Company for the Great Northern Railway and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1955. . The cars were used exclusively on the Empire Builder from their introduction in 1955 until the end of private passenger service in 1
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] Industrial designer Raymond Loewy gave the cars an Art Deco styling.
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.