The back cover of this timetable announces that “new Vista-Domes are coming!” That’s certainly worth an exclamation point as the domes launched the North Coast Limited from a train distinctly inferior to the Empire Builder to one that had at least four advantages: two dome coaches and two dome sleepers.
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The picture accompanying this ad has been noted here before as being peculiar as it doesn’t show the roof ribs that were standard on Budd-built cars but does show full-width diaphragms. I can understand the lack of roof ribs, as none of Northern Pacific’s other passenger cars had such ribs, but why the diaphragms that were never actually used on any Northern Pacific passenger cars?