Product Information:
HO SP Dome-Lounge w/Flat Sides: Amtrak - Phase 1: #9373 – ‘Overland’ style, blanked top windows (Officially licensed by Amtrak®)
SP built one prototype and six production Dome Lounge cars between 1954 and 1955. All were built new in the railroad’s Sacramento General Shops, using select frame pieces from various retired Pullman-Standard pre-war “Daylight” cars. The Budd Company supplied the dome structure as a kit. Essentially, these cars were new construction using salvaged frame pieces for accounting purposes. Another reason for using retired cars was that SP’s foundry couldn’t roll a long enough center sill and no one could supply one quickly enough.
Rapido’s SP Dome Lounge Cars Features:
- Designed from original blueprints and field measurements of existing cars
- Two fully detailed interior configurations
- Multi-colour interior decoration
- Two underbody arrangements
- Accurate interior and exterior paint and decoration
- Full flicker-free track-powered interior lighting
- Lighting (prototypically) in the dome roof
- Accurate free-rolling trucks
- Metal magnetic knuckle couplers
