VIA Rail Observation Car

VIA Rail Observation Car

VIA Rail Observation Car
Model: Observation 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 textures by dragonharh
Finalized by Zeldaboy14

Author: dragonharh and Zeldaboy14

VIA Rail Observation Car
body
env_metal-env_metal.texture.txt 32 bytes
env_metal.jpg 3.47KB
via_observation_car_baked.im 765.72KB
viamaindetailsbaked-viamaindetailsbaked.texture.txt 42 bytes
viamaindetailsbaked.tga 12.00MB
viaobservationbaked-viaobservationbaked.texture.txt 42 bytes
viaobservationbaked.tga 12.00MB
windows-windows.texture.txt 49 bytes
windows.bmp 768.05KB
• config.txt 8.56KB
night
night-night.texture.txt 45 bytes
night.im 656 bytes
night.tga 1.00MB
night_observation.im 2.59KB
shadow
observation shadow.im 91.50KB
• via observation car.bmp 768.05KB