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Beaver Tail
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad· from 1935· model of observation car
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Second generation Beaver tail rail car: Milwaukee Road· Public domain
what is it?
The Beaver Tails were a fleet of streamlined parlor-observation passenger cars built by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("the Milwaukee Road") between 1934–1938. They served as the observation cars on the famous Hiawatha trains from 1935 until 1948, when they were displaced by the new Skytop Lounge.
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 91 years ago, in 1935.
- Served for 26 years (1935–1961).
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1935
- in service from
- 1935
- retired
- 1961
- status
- retired
- number built
- 8
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q15055779, Wikipedia: Beaver Tail (railcar) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.