That's the Spirit...When Pullman-Standard built "Super Dome" #57 for the Milwaukee Road in 1952, it had flat sides instead of the stainless steel fluting it wore as part of the Spirit of Washington Dinner Train.
It's shown here at the train's former terminus of Renton, Wash. It does, indeed, carries the name "City of Renton", which is appropriate because the Renton depot and part of the train's route were former MILW, where #57 operated on the old "Olympian Hiawatha". This same car also spent several years as a trackside restaurant in Portland, Ore. in the early 1980s, first as the "Silver Garden", then as the "Warsaw Express".
Photographed by Thomas McCann, February 15, 2005.
Added to the photo archive by Thomas McCann, December 2, 2006.
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