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,
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
Big Dome
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The Big Domes were a fleet of streamlined dome cars built by the Budd Company for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1954. Budd built a total of 14 cars in two batches. The Santa Fe operated
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…with one of these destroyed in a derailment while on a test run and later rebuilt using new parts and parts salvaged from the original destroyed car. "Big Dome" full-length cars built by the Budd Company in 1954 for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe for the railroad's passenger train fleet. Fourteen of these…
Ex-ATSF Big Domes on the Auto-Train in 1973
The lounge area of a Big Dome in 1954