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 Posted - April 11 2014 : 06:39:04 AM
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http://tycodepot.com/
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 Posted - April 11 2014 : 09:42:24 AM
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looks more like a double ended caboose 
BUT a caboose is the origin of the Dome Car 
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Posted - April 11 2014 : 10:19:02 AM
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not quite right ben,see history below ken
Although the design of a dome car can be likened to a cupola caboose, the dome car's development is not directly related. The earliest documented predecessor of the dome car was first developed in the 1880s; known at the time as the "birdcage car", it was used on an 1882 sightseeing tour on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. In 1891, T. J. McBride received a patent for a car design called an "observation-sleeper"; illustrations of the design in Scientific American at the time showed a car with three observation domes.[2] Canadian Pacific Railway used "tourist cars" with raised, glass-sided viewing cupolas on their trains through the Canadian Rocky Mountains in the 1920s.
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Posted - April 27 2014 : 8:31:14 PM
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That sure does look like an attempt at a dome car to me. Any back story on it? It looks first class, the leaf spring trucks date to when? Those air brake hoses date to after 1916.
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