Thanks to John C Jones and another source at Union Pacific,  I was able to photograph this rare passenger domecar in North Little Rock on April 3, 2013. The domecar is MRLX 9410, former Great Northern passenger dome with "Montana Daylight" just below the dome and "Emerson" as the car's name below the windows.


Thanks to Gene Poon of the Yahoo Group All_Aboard for the following information, obtained from the late Dan Ainsworth's dome car site:

"History of the car, according to the dome car site which was maintained by the late Dan Ainsworth:

    GN 1331 - BN 4611 (not applied), Amtrak 9471 - NOTE: This car was the LAST Amtrak owned Vista Dome to be painted into Amtrak colors (6/76).  Amtrak 9410 (HEP) (1/84), retired 1995 to Montana Rockies Daylight     BKSX 9410, to Henry Hillman/Oregon Rail Corp/American Orient Express/Montana Rockies Rail Tours (11/98) - car in Sandpoint ID 11/2000 with "American Spirit" - sold to RailQuest America/Montana Rockies Rail Tours 01/2001 RQAX 9410 - repainted in new livery. MRRT suspended operations and sold car to Phil Sheridan 12/2004. Car leased to Alaska RR and moved north 5/05. Returned 11/07 and car moved to Gateway (ex ITAC). Sold 2008 to Cuyahoga Scenic RR OH and named "Emerson".
   With the untimely death of Dan Ainsworth in 2012, it is unlikely that a custodian will be found to keep the site current.  Sadly: as a definitive Internet reference to dome cars, nothing else came close (especially the bits and pieces of anecdotal information passed around on TO).  Dan's Amtrak Superliner site was just as good."




This predawn photo was taken by a Union Pacific person and sent to me.

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