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Super Dome
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Pullman Company· from 1952· class of 10 full-length dome cars
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. MILW Super Dome at Winona: Michael Hicks· CC BY 2.0
- 2. Super Dome and Skytop: Michael Hicks· CC BY 2.0
- 3. Super Dome car: jpmueller99 from Shenandoah Valley of VA, USA· CC BY 2.0
- 4. Superdome Hiawatha: Reinhard Dietrich· CC0
what is it?
The Super Dome was a Dome car built by Pullman-Standard for the Milwaukee Road in 1952. The ten Super Domes were the first full-length dome cars in revenue service, first operating on the Olympian Hiawatha and Twin Cities Hiawatha in late 1952. Although a mixed blessing in passenger use, the cars garnered much publicity for the Milwaukee Road and several remain in operation.
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 74 years ago, in 1952.
- Still in service after 74 years.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1952
- in service from
- 1952
- status
- in service
- number built
- 10
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Pullman Company
- operators
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, Canadian National Railway, Amtrak, Via Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- capacity
- 68 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16985169, Wikipedia: Super Dome (railcar) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.