Dome car
![Former California Zephyr dome car in excursion train service with the defunct Inland Lakes Railway in Plymouth, Florida.](/Images/godic/202501/09/InlandLakesDome1300.jpg")
![The upper level interior of a dome car, configured as a dining area, on display at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin.](/Images/godic/202501/09/Dome_diner_interior1300.jpg")
![Dome observation car at the rear of Union Pacific's City of Portland passenger train.](/Images/godic/202501/09/Union_Pacific_Railroad_City_of_Portland_streamliner1300.JPG")
![Silver Dome, the first Burlington Vista-Dome car.](/Images/godic/202501/09/Burlington_Zephyrs_Vista_Dome1300.JPG")
A dome car is a type of railway passenger car that has a glass dome on the top of the car where passengers can ride and see in all directions around the train. It also can include features of a coach, lounge car, dining car, sleeping car or observation. Beginning in 1945, dome cars were primarily used in the United States and Canada, though a small number were constructed in Europe for Trans Europ Express service, and similar panorama cars are in service on Alpine tourist railways like the Bernina Express.