| By: | Gary Everhart |
| Dates: | 10/22/2009 - 10/22/2009 |
| Album Info: | Tucked safely away in one of the Mad River and NKP Railroad Museum buildings in Bellevue, OH is the first dome car built from scratch by the Chicago Burlington and Quincy RR.
According to Wikipedia, "The CB&Q took a stainless steel Budd-built coach and rebuilt it at their shops in Aurora, Illinois, with the Vista Dome imagined and sketched by Cyrus Osborn. The dome area featured seats that were positioned lengthwise in the cabin facing double-pane windows which were designed to improve insulation. This first Vista Dome was called appropriately, Silver Dome. On July 23, 1945, the car was tested in the consist of the Twin Cities Zephyr."
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