City of Portland Domeliner

This unusually sized brochure unfolds to about 11″ by 17″ and has all the usual photos of the dome diner (including the private dining room, with roses wallpaper, beneath the dome), dome lounge, and dome coach. It isn’t dated, but the train schedule matches the one in UP’s 1958 timetable, so it could have been from that year or a year or so before or after.

Click image to download a 2.3-MB PDF of this brochure.

Curiously, all of the women in the photos of the dome coach and dome lounge are wearing hats, while in the photos of the dome diner and downstairs portions of the trains they are not. Could it be that entering the dome was deemed to be the same as going outside, and so hats were de rigueur — except in the diner, because no one would wear a hat to dinner?


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