Observation Dome
Room With a View - Two of our First Class cars also feature an upper-level glass enclosed dome which features more seating. You haven't seen it all until you've seen the panoramic views from an air-conditioned streamliner dome car. Fresh fruit, pastries, coffee and juice are provided on the outbound journey with champagne and snacks served on the way back. Service of fine spirits is available. It's our goal to make your trip as pleasureable as possible. A passenger service attendant will attend to your every need - from drinks from the bar to a blanket to snuggle in.
Children under 13 not allowed.
Streamliners
From the years immediately following World War II through the mid 1950s, American railroads embarked on one of the most ambitious, all encompassing and expensive re-equipment programs in the history of any industry for their major passenger trains to have the ability to compete with airplanes and cars. 
The railroads purchased thousands of the most comfortable, luxurious and modern rail passenger cars ever designed from American Car and Foundry, the Edward G. Budd Company and Pullman Standard. The immediate result was the most magnificent and opulent fleet of streamliners and domeliners ever to grace this planet. Domes and the cruiseliner concept added a new dimension to overland travel, transforming "getting there" into a destination in itself. Whether viewing Mount Hood or Mount Shasta from the Shasta Daylight, Feather River Canyon and the Rockies from the California Zephyr or Tehachapi from the San Francisco Chief, all compared favorably with any attractions in their fabled San Francisco destination. Unfortunately, in the longer term, this massive investment proved no match for indirectly taxpayer subsidized competition, first from the airlines and later from the Interstate Highway System. With the railroads facing financial ruin, most of the trains began losing their luster by the mid 1960s. Within a few years a grand era was gone forever. Well, almost forever. Enjoy a ride with a spectacular view on our Dome Car on Grand Canyon Railway.
