This dome car was named "Sky Dome" - Amtrak 9421, retired 8/76 and sold to Lake Shore Railway Hist Society Northeast PA 9/1976, Oral Parsons/Lake Erie Railcar (1982), In 1982, it was sold to Lake Erie Railcar. Four years later,
The car was purchased in 1986 by Brad Black for Maryland Area Regional Commuter (MARC) for Steve Zuidervine/Operations Manager as a business car and assigned #99 (1986) but never restored - stored at Brunswick MD yards. This conversion never happened and the car instead sat in storage.
Sold by Brad Black to Illinois Transit Assembly (10/1999), and moved to Madison, IL. The following year (2000)
Donated to Museum Of Transportation in (07/2000) by Ben Butterworth and Illinois Transit Company in 2001.
Scraped 2014.
This is one of two original Strata-Domes (Dome Coach-Lounges) built by the Pullman-Standard Company in 1949. The dome area seated 24, while the lower level contained two lounges and coach seating for 42. To accommodate the lower clearances on railroads in the Eastern United States the dome sat lower on the Strata Dome than on other dome cars, 21 inches instead of the standard 28 inches.
These cars were numbered 5550 and 5551 and given the names High Dome and Sky Dome. At the front of the car the B&O installed a speedometer, clock, altimeter, and barometer.
Both cars were originally assigned to the Baltimore & Ohio Columbian. Car 5551 initially carried the name "Sky Dome" in addition to the number, but the name was later dropped. The car carried on in service up to Amtrak, With the coming of Amtrak in May 1971, 5551 was sold to the national carrier, eventually becoming Amtrak 9421.
