Reply To: Rapido Budd Dome car

[David Boeschen]

I was in one of the P-S domes in 1959, and it was operating with dome stairway to the rear. I was in a couple of IC ex-MP P-S domes, same story. Sorry I don’t have a direct answer to this, but I thought the position of the stairway would have been the primary factor in orienting a dome coach in the consist, and my impression was that the stairway would always be to the rear, for safety reasons. I’ve been in lots of Burlington dome coaches, and that was the universal rule as I saw it. Then again, they usually ran three and four E-units elephant style, so definitely not the MoPac way.

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