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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.
This inspection car has rear-facing seats and a large glass window at the end that allows passengers to observe the tracks. [29] American View is used by maintenance crews to visually inspect the tracks for defects and by the Amtrak president and other executives for official purposes. Number 2300 was rebuilt into a track-geometry car in ...
In 1891, T. J. McBride received a patent for a car design called an "observation-sleeper"; illustrations of the design in Scientific American at the time showed a car with three observation domes. [16] Canadian Pacific Railway used "tourist cars" with raised, glass-sided viewing cupolas on their trains through the Canadian Rocky Mountains in ...
Opened in 1908, the elaborate building — with its grand interior staircase, stained-glass mural and rose windows, and 88-foot-high copper dome topped with a bronze statue of a Native American ...
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 ...
#10004 American View, a Viewliner-based "inspection car" [30] with rear-facing seats and large glass window at the end of the car that allows passengers to observe the tracks. The car can also be used by maintenance crews to visually inspect the tracks for defects and by the Amtrak president and other executives for official purposes.
In the early 1950s Pullman developed a "full-length" design, with the dome seating area stretching the length of the car. This design posed several challenges. The full-length glass roof (625-square-foot (58.1 m 2)) necessitated a new, powerful air-conditioning system from a dedicated diesel motor.
The second permanent Superliner train was the Desert Wind, then a day train between Los Angeles and Ogden, Utah, which gained coaches on June 30, 1980. The San Francisco Zephyr , a long-distance train on the traditional Overland Route between Chicago and San Francisco , followed on July 7, 1980; it received the first of the Sightseer lounges on ...