#5551 B & O, #9421 ITAX Dome Car

#5551 Baltimore & Ohio - Dome Car

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),

purchased by Brad Black for MARC for Steve Zuidervine/Operations Manager as a business car and assigned #99 (1986) but never restored - stored at Brunswick MD yards,

sold by Brad Black to Illinois Transit Assembly (10/1999),

donated to Museum of Transport St Louis (07/2000).

This is one of two original Strata-Domes built by the Pullman-Standard Company. 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.

Donated to Museum Of Transportation in 2000 by Ben Butterworth and Illinois Transit Company.

Scraped 201x.