Former Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe "Pleasure Dome" lounge #501 was one of six built for the railroad's famous "Super Chief" streamliner in 1951 and was one of only 18 short domes built by Pullman-Standard.

After its long Santa Fe career, the car continued to run in the same service for Amtrak through the 1970s.

The car was, for many years, part of the Spirit of Washington Dinner Train operation out of Renton, Wash. After that operation ceased in 2007, the car was stored for several years until the dinner train consist was purchased by Iowa Pacific Holdings, which operates short line railroads and excursion or dinner trains in several locations throughout the U.S.

Iowa Pacific assigned the car to its Mount Hood Railroad operation in Hood River, Ore., and it is shown there at the railroad's shop building. It is lettered for Iowa Pacific's San Luis & Rio Grande short line.

Photographed by Thomas McCann, July 4, 2017.
Added to the photo archive by Thomas McCann, December 20, 2017.

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