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Lake Superior Railroad Museum dome gets wheel, HVAC work prior to move
I love dome cars. The dome is the best seat in the house. I commend Lake Superior Railroad Museum for restoring this car. Maybe I will get to ride in it someday.
A great addition to the collection of the museum, it will look great out on the line, and will look good behind the two Streamliners (Soo 2500 & Erie Mining 4211) as well as behind the “new” steamer, D&NE #28
Amtrak and the carbuilders should use blueprints of single level and dome railway passenger cars built in the 1950’s by Pullman-Standard and Budd. The Boeing Company has been using their same designs for the fuselages to its airliners for more than half a century! The tried and proven of conventional train design should be adopted with adjustment to advancing technology.
Single level cars assigned throughout the Amtrak system would make feasible whole trains and through sleeping cars between New York and the West and Southwest (like Texas). Handicapped passengers with mobility issues would have access to the rest of the trains they ride including dining and lounge cars rather than be confined to the lower level accommodations of bilevel cars. Amtrak constricted itself from true transcontinental trains from their choice of bilevel cars for outside the Northeast Corridor.
With regards to proven design, sleeping cars should not look like a stretch Winnebago.