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Strata-Dome
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Pullman Company· from 1949· class of 2 coach-dome cars and 3 sleeper-dome cars
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. The Columbian Strata Dome: Baltimore and Ohio railroad· Public domain
- 2. Private cars at 14th Street Coach Yard, December 2018: Pi.1415926535· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Baltimore and Ohio Columbian Strata Dome: Baltimore and Ohio railroad· Public domain
what is it?
The Strata-Domes were a fleet of five streamlined dome cars operated by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ("B&O"). The term referred both to a pair of dome cars constructed by Pullman-Standard and three Budd Company domes the B&O acquired from the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ("C&O"). They were the first dome cars operated in the Eastern United States, following on the success of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's "Vista-Domes" in the west.
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 77 years ago, in 1949.
- Served for 32 years (1949–1981).
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1949
- in service from
- 1949
- retired
- 1981
- status
- retired
- number built
- 5
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Pullman Company, Budd Company
- operators
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, Amtrak
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16985092, Wikipedia: Strata-Dome (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.