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Skytop Lounge
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by Pullman Company· from 1948· observation car built by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
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- 1. Coon Rapids (23913452449): Roger Puta· Public domain
- 2. Skytop Lounge (23741843893): Roger Puta· Public domain
what is it?
The Skytop Lounges were a fleet of streamlined passenger cars with parlor-lounge cars built by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("the Milwaukee Road") and sleeper-lounges built by Pullman-Standard in 1948. The cars were designed by famed industrial designer Brooks Stevens.
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 78 years ago, in 1948.
- Served for 29 years (1948–1977).
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1948
- in service from
- 1948
- retired
- 1977
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 10
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- Pullman Company, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
- designer
- Brooks Stevens
- operators
- Canadian National Railway, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- capacity
- 24 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16984673, Wikipedia: Skytop Lounge (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.