VIA Rail Skyline Car

VIA Rail Skyline Car

VIA Rail Skyline Car
Model: Skyline dome car Built by: Budd Car Company and AMF Built in: November 1954-April 1955 Acquired by VIA Rail in: August 1978 Number of units in fleet: 16 Unit number(s): 8500 to 8517 Configuration: 24 seats in the dining room, 24 seats in the second-floor dome, galley, snack bar, lounge Did you know? Two of these cars (8500 and 8507) were rented out to Delaware & Hudson, an American company, in the 1970s.The word 'skyline' comes from 'Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies', a group of amateur mountaineers that travelled to the peaks of the Rockies in 1933. When VIA acquired the cars, the dining room was a coach section with 26 seats and the snack bar was a tiny eating area with only 6 seats. As is the railway tradition, all domed cars riding the rails in North America used to have both a name and a number.The windows in the dome are made with multi-layered laminated glass composed of synthetic materials that can resist an impact twenty times greater than that of a car windshield. The Skyline dome cars originally ran opposite to their current direction. When the car was turned around and seats were changed to face forward, there wasn’t enough leg room for the front most pair of seats, so VIA left that row facing ckwards and put tables in between the four seats. It's considered a cardinal sin to fall asleep in the dome seats — even though it's very easy to do so in the warm sunshine!


The VIA Project was started over a year ago by kilanziom but after builting to cars BUDD project development was abandoned. Now the Project was taken over by dragonharh.
Original Project Phototextures by kilanziom, PerRock & dragonharh.
mesh and new texturs by dragonharh

Author: dragonharh

VIA Rail Skyline Car
body
body details.im 14.79KB
car ends.im 18.01KB
digit_3.texture.txt 30 bytes
digit_3.tga 4.02KB
digit_4.texture.txt 30 bytes
digit_4.tga 4.02KB
digit_5.texture.txt 30 bytes
digit_5.tga 4.02KB
digit_6.texture.txt 30 bytes
digit_6.tga 4.02KB
dome-windows-dome-windows.texture.txt 59 bytes
dome-windows.bmp 768.05KB
main.bmp 1.50MB
main.texture.txt 27 bytes
main2.bmp 1.50MB
main2.texture.txt 28 bytes
main3.bmp 1.50MB
main3.texture.txt 28 bytes
main4.bmp 1.50MB
main4.texture.txt 28 bytes
skyline.bmp 1.50MB
skyline.texture.txt 30 bytes
skylinedetails.im 590.28KB
skylinedetails2.im 591.70KB
via rail skyline.im 261.36KB
windows-windows.texture.txt 49 bytes
windows.bmp 3.05KB
• config.txt 8.46KB
• dragonharh_20111108_0001.jpg 81.23KB
night
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night.im 656 bytes
night.tga 1.00MB
shadow
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black.texture.txt 28 bytes
black.tga 786 bytes
opacity.bmp 3.05KB
shadow.bmp 3.05KB
shadow.im 6.38KB
via_alpha_numbers
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alphanumber_0.tga 4.02KB
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