Weekend Event: Railways

Diesel locomotives brought colourful change to railways. Unfortunately as cost-cutting began in the 60s, colourful paint schemes were expensive to apply and diesels became more sombre in solid darker colours.

Weekend Event: Railways

Budd dome cars could not be used on railways in the east because clearances in tunnels were lower. So Pullman-Standard built Strata-Domes for the Baltimore and Ohio and Budd built them for the Chesapeake and Ohio. They had a lower profile and a different contour than Budd's standard domes. They also included spotlights on the roof for night time viewing.







Weekend Event: Railways

To compete with CP's "Canadian" the Canadian National introduced "The Super Continental" on the same date as CP's "Canadian" although with smooth-side cars built by Canadian Car and Foundry and Pullman-Standard. It didn't have dome cars, either. Domes didn't appear on CN until they bought the Super Domes from the Milwaukee Road in c.1964.





Condolences to the Vine family.

Weekend Event: Railways

You can still ride the all-Budd "Canadian" with domes across Canada. Via Rail Canada still operates this train, which was inaugurated by the Canadian Pacific on April 24, 1955.





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Budd was the other passenger car builder and known for their fluted stainless steel trains and domes. Their ads were simple, clean, and artistic.



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Ice was used to cool refrigerator cars until mechanical refrigeration took over. Trivia: I've read that iceberg lettuce got it's name because it was shipped in these ice cooled refrigerator cars from California.

Weekend Event: Railways

American Car and Foundry was one of the passenger car builders, along with Pullman-Standard and Budd.

Weekend Event: Railways

Union Pacific Had diners in dome cars. No better place to eat!