by TCurtin
How late did the Capitol Ltd. keep its dome car? All the way until Amtrak?
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Tadman wrote:"Journey to Amtrak" by Harold Edmonson (Kalmbach 1972) has pictures on page 56/57 of the last eastbound B&O Capitol Limited before A-day. There are clearly two domes in the consist. It does not note whether this is a "last hurrah" special or if this was normal consist.The two dome cars on the final train out of Chicago were the only domes that B&O had at the time (the domes were from the 1948 Columbian train sets)- the Pullman domes that B&O had bought from the C&O in the early 50's were sold off in the late 60's and were operating on the SCL.
This 1970 shot doesn't show one.
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