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Posted by chrisg (Member # 2488) on :

The Great Dome went to Portland to be on the 4449 Trip to Bend but in Portland it was bad ordered with 5 cracks on one of the trucks. Estimate cost is $25,000 at least. It will have to be moved to Seattle at 10 mph in order to be worked on. I saw it in Portland and there will be a picture of it in my 4449 Trip Story that will be done I hope by Friday.

Chris

Posted by notelvis (Member # 3071) on :

Looks like our only option for a great dome now will be at the Royal Gorge Scenic RR or on Friends of the 261 excursions. I'm so glad I got several chances to ride the latter one when it was used on the NCDOT Piedmont for only $8.00 over regular coach fare......an absolute bargain!

Posted by PullmanCo (Member # 1138) on :

There is at least one Amtrak current full dome available for private charter:

http://www.aaprco.com/cgi/cars/cardisplay.pl?super-dome:type

Posted by CoastStarlight99 (Member # 2734) on :

Thanks for the heads up Chris, I had the chance to ride on the dome from SBA-LAX on 784 a few weeks ago.

Amtrak use to have more, but they have sold them and now only have 10031 which floats around the system.

Dome Car Info from Trainweb

Posted by rY. (Member # 3528) on :

$25,000 seems like a lot of money, but I guess there isn't much equipment riding around on three-axle passenger trucks any more. I hope they can find the money from somewhere to fix it!

Posted by PaulB (Member # 4258) on :

$25k is chump change for a passenger car. I hope it will return for another year, as it always seems to do!