Dome car

As an observation car or panoramic carriages a coach or rail car is called, which was equipped with larger than average windows to allow a good view of landscapes and monuments along the way. Also open summer car sometimes referred to as, but differ materially from those discussed here constructively vehicles.

Dome Cars

Mostly used in North America are cars with a glass viewing platform that overlooks the rooftops of the rest of the train and thus allows a view not only to the side and above, but also to the front and rear. The car floor in the viewing platform is correspondingly increased, which makes it possible to arrange including a floor, for example, service rooms.

In the years 1962 and 1963, the German Federal Railroad ( from 1966: ADmh 101) purchased a total of five observation car of the type AD4üm -62 on the American model for new train sets of the TEE Rheingold trains and Rheinpfeil. Here are below the viewing platform mail and baggage rooms, at one end of the car normal compartments and at the other end of a bar with the introduction of the Intercity network, the cars were sold to the German travel company Apfelpfeil, post-bankruptcy to the travel agency Mittelthurgau, finally ran the observation car for several years in regular service at Tågkompaniet in Sweden. Four vehicles of which have returned to Germany in 2005. A car being used by the DB again in the new tourism TEE Rheingold on charter flights. Another part in blue- beige paint to the vehicle stock of Friends Railway Cologne, one remains in Sweden for special train operations. The car No.3 is currently being modernized by Rail Adventure and was seen at InnoTrans 2012 in Berlin. After completion of the newly designed interior of this is to be offered for event rides under the name Luxon.

Pulpit Cart

Pulpit cars are used on the rear of the train and there have a view compartment. Derived is this type of vehicle by U.S. Observation Cars. In the German Federal Railroad two such cars were in the 1950s in Fernschnellzug Blue Gentian in use. Today, this type of vehicle is particularly common in Japan.

The Montreux- Bernese Oberland Railway in Switzerland is the Golden Pass Panoramic run between Montreux and Zweisimmen a motor coach that has a pulpit at both ends. Also in Japan, a number of railway companies corresponding railcars.

Vehicles with large windows

Car

Mostly found in Switzerland are cars with a floor at normal height or only slightly raised and large picture windows over the entire carriage length, which pass into the roof area ( with angled skylights or curved window panes ). Several narrow gauge railways have procured such cars, including Montreux- Bernese Oberland Railway, the Matterhorn -Gotthard -Bahn, Rhaetian Railway and Brünigbahn. They run into tourist trains such as the Glacier Express, Bernina Express and Golden Pass Panoramic Express ( MOB).

The Swiss Federal Railways in 1991 twelve panoramic cars purchased, the RIC -compatible and are suitable for a speed of 200 km / hr. These cars were used in regular Euro City trains and useable for passengers of the first class. As with the MOB cars, the floor level was compared to the other cars increased in order to improve the prospect for travelers, not least in view of the increased number of lines with noise barriers. The panorama cars of this type came in the international market after Italy, Germany, Austria, France, Belgium and Holland. Meanwhile, they operate mainly on the Gotthard and until recently in the Euro City Transalpin to Vienna, which has now been superseded by a Railjet.

Leaders view cart

For the special train of Adolf Hitler, the wagon factory Fuchs built in Heidelberg in 1939 with the exception of a platform and the bar area in the upper half glazed dome car ( Bln 10 282 ), known in the literature as leaders observation car. This car was rebuilt in 1953 by the Austrian Federal Railways in a tree top car.

Railcar

In Germany the first railcar was presented with full glazing the public in 1935. Overall, only two copies of the referred to as ET 91 series were produced. They were called Gläserner train according to your appearance. The younger of the two cars, ET 91 02, still came during the Second World War damage, ET 91 01 still wrong, however, to 1995 regularly with excursions from Munich main station in southern Bavaria and Austria, as well as he by a head-on collision with a locomotive at the station Garmisch -Partenkirchen was destroyed. The remains of this vehicle are issued in Augsburg Railway Park. With the 137 240 and a diesel -powered observation car was built in 1936, 1939 two further 137 put into service 462/463.

The idea of ​​Transparent train was picked up at the Berlin S -Bahn. These built from three individual coaches of the series 477, the " Panorama S -Bahn ", which was presented on the 75th anniversary of the Berlin S -Bahn and is only used on special trips. During her recent state visit to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II drove it from Berlin to Potsdam.

The French state railway SNCF began in the 1960s and 1970s, a ten diesel - powered observation car of the 4200 X series.

In the Stadtbahn Karlsruhe some achtachsige articulated railcar types GT8-100C/2S and GT8 -80C is equipped with a so-called comfort midsection. This is equipped with a roof edge glazing and has a more comfortable interior.

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