Dome car
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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, dome cars were primarily used in the United States and Canada, though a small number were constructed in Europe for Trans Europ Express service.
Former California Zephyr Silver Bridle dome car in excursion train service with the defunct Inland Lakes Railway in Plymouth, Florida
The upper-level interior of a dome car, configured as a dining area, on display at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin
Dome observation car at the rear of Union Pacific's City of Portland passenger train
An excursion train pulled by Milwaukee Road 261 with a full-length Super Dome car in 2008
Observation car
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An observation car/carriage/coach 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' viewing pleasure. The cars were nearly universally removed from service on American railroads beginning in the 1950s as a cost-cutting measure in order to eliminate the need to "turn" the trains when operating out of stub-end terminals.
A heavyweight observation on display at the Illinois Railway Museum.
LNWR observation car No 1503 at Kingscote, Bluebell Railway
Open observation car at the Hanging Bridge of the Royal Gorge on the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad in 1918. The enclosed observation car is directly in front of it.
Tokio station, where passengers boarded the train to Ostende, Argentina (1913) Observation car (Decauville wagon)