“Relax in the most interesting railroad car you’ve ever seen!” says the back of this timetable. “It’s the new Raymond Loewy-designed Lewis and Clark Traveller’s Rest buffet-lounge on the Vista-Dome North Coast Limited.” A picture shows the interior but the picture doesn’t really show the murals that made this car so interesting nor are they described or even mentioned in the text.
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The photo used was a black-and-white version of the one below, but most of the mural behind the woman on the far right was cropped out of the photo. Thus, the only hints of the murals on the timetable were near the ceiling, and since the photo wasn’t in color most people probably regarded them as an abstract design if they saw them at all. Continue reading