Vista domes were introduced to the North Coast Limited in the summer of 1954. On July 27, photographer Ron Nixon took photos of a dome which was apparently in Montana for a shakedown run, but the the dome coaches were not regularly added to the train until mid-August and the dome sleepers in September.

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Having gone most of the summer of 1954 without domes, it was reasonable for this May 1955 timetable to announce that four domes would be on each train in the summer of 1955. The cover picture is a Leslie Ragan painting (shown in color here) done for the Budd Company. The same painting would be on 1956 timetables, but the advertising in those timetables would focus on the introduction of stewardess-nurses and the Traveller’s Rest cars rather than the domes.