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Skyline series

🇺🇸 United States ·built by Budd Company· from 1954· Class of Canadian coach-dome cars

🚃 carriage / wagon ✓ in service
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
  1. 1. Lower level of the Skyline car: Kosboot· CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. 2. The Canadian Skyline Car 3: Kosboot· CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. 3. The Canadian Skyline Car view 1: Kosboot· CC BY-SA 4.0
  4. 4. The Canadian Skyline Car view 2: Kosboot· CC BY-SA 4.0
  5. 5. VIA Rail Canada Park Car and Skyline (Dome) at Pacific Central Station, Vancouver: Cjstepney· CC BY-SA 4.0
  6. 6. VIA Rail Canada Skyline (Dome) and Park Car at Pacific Central Station: Cjstepney· CC BY-SA 4.0
  7. 7. VIA Rail Skyline Dome Car 8509, August 26 2026: Dillan Payne· CC BY-SA 4.0
  8. 8. VIA Rail Skyline Dome Car 8510, August 26 2026: Dillan Payne· CC BY-SA 4.0
  9. 9. DSC00553 - Passenger car VIA 15513 Sibley Park (48167715182): Dennis G. Jarvis· CC BY-SA 2.0
  10. 10. DSC00569 - Passenger car VIA 15513 Sibley Park (48167694692): Dennis G. Jarvis· CC BY-SA 2.0
Read about it on Wikipedia ↗
Skyline series, photo 1 of 10
1/10 Kosboot· CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

The Skyline series is a fleet of 18 lightweight streamlined dome-buffet-lounge cars built by the Budd Company for the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1954–55. Via Rail acquired the fleet from the Canadian Pacific in 1978 and the cars remain in active service.

who runs it

Delaware and Hudson RailwayVia RailCanadian Pacific Railway

base stats

  • weight 66.3 tin working order
  • seats 73passengers
  • built 18made in total

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.
  • Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
  • 25.9 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
  • Still in service after 72 years.

carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.

spec sheet

built
1954
in service from
1954
status
in service
number built
18
kind
carriage / wagon
origin
🇺🇸 United States
builders
Budd Company
operators
Delaware and Hudson Railway, Via Rail, Canadian Pacific Railway
top speed
—
power
—
length
25.9 m
weight
66.3 t
capacity
73 passengers

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: Wikidata Q19877894, Wikipedia: Skyline series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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