In 1954, Santa Fe added a full-length dome to its all-coach El Capitan. Just two years later, it replaced the Big Domes (as the railroad called them), along with the rest of the train, with Hi-Level cars. This 1954 brochure advertises the Big-Dome version of the train.
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One side of this brochure uses many of the same color illustrations that were found in the railroad’s 1953 booklet about the train. The other side focuses on the Big Dome and actually uses photos rather than illustrations. The only photo that isn’t of the dome car shows El Capitan‘s boat-tailed observation car. The railroad soon realized that people would rather be in dome cars than observation cars and eliminated the observation cars as it added domes to more trains.