Observation Cars

[daveklepper]

Some tourist operators run operation cars, and many private owner cars that are used for special parties are obsrvation cars.

British Rail for a time ran an obervation car on trains between Glascow and the Scottish coast past Lock Lomand .  Do they still do so?

[Deggesty]

Amtrak does not operate any cars that are properly called "observation cars"--you can sit down and look back to where you have been. Some call the Sightseer Lounges "obsevation cars," but they do not fit the definition.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

VIA's "Canadian" and "Ocean" may be the last scheduled passenger trains to include observation cars in their consists.

[richhotrain]

Are observation cars even used anymore in the U.S. ?

I suppose that Amtrak did away with any observation cars that it might have acquired from the railroads using observation cars at the birth of Amtrak.

Supposedly, some Canadian railroads still use observation cars.

Rich

[wjstix]

I know Pullman was building observation cars by about 1890. I imagine observation cars came along about the same time as enclosed vestibules - 1880's*90's. Before that, every car had an open platform at each end.

[Reagan]

Does anyone know when and where the first use of Observation Cars???