🚃 carriage / wagon retired
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5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Autotrain Lorton: Bengt Mutén· CC BY 2.0
- 2. Santa Fe big dome observation car 1954: Santa Fe Railroad· Public domain
- 3. Sierra Western Rail Corp's Big Dome in Oakland - 3 Photos (30341047043): railfan 44· Public domain
- 4. Sierra Western Rail Corp's Big Dome in Oakland - 3 Photos (30341048223): railfan 44· Public domain
- 5. Sierra Western Rail Corp's Big Dome in Oakland - 3 Photos (31148618185): railfan 44· Public domain
what is it?
The Big Domes were a fleet of streamlined dome cars built by the Budd Company for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ("Santa Fe") in 1954. Budd built a total of 14 cars in two batches. The Santa Fe operated all 14 on various streamlined trains until it conveyed its passenger trains to Amtrak in 1971.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 72 years ago, in 1954.
- Served for 27 years (1954–1981).
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1954
- in service from
- 1954
- retired
- 1981
- status
- retired
- number built
- 14
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Budd Company
- operators
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Auto-Train Corporation
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- capacity
- 57 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16951611, Wikipedia: Big Dome (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.