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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 14:01, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Strata-Dome

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... that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Strata-Domes (pictured) were the first dome cars to operate in the Eastern United States?

Reviewed: Alice of Hainault

Created by Mackensen (talk). Self nominated at 15:12, 3 November 2013 (UTC).

An interesting (but short) article. Consider writing about the implications of the Strata-Dome on future transportation methods, but otherwise good. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Missjenga (talk • contribs) 16:41, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

I'm a little skeptical about the hook's claim even though it is supported by the first citation in the article (although curiously it is not cited to this). The book that the hook is cited to does not, imo support this claim and, depending on your definition of "Eastern United States," actually appears to contradict both the article's claim and the first citation's claim about this car. On page 198 of the source the statement is cited to, it says that the Burlington railroad was running dome cars on the Minneapolis/St Paul - Chicago route in 1947 and the page that is cited for the hook (199) says the B&O was "the next" (not the first) line in the eastern USA to use dome cars (although it and other sources do go on to say that for many years the B&O was the only line in the Eastern USA to still be using them). I don't know enough about the topic in question to feel confident making the call, but in my opinion the book that says it was not the first is more likely to be correct because its topic is the history of passenger cars in general whereas the other book is only about the B&O. Given that, it definitely seems reasonable that the authors of the latter book made a mistake because another railroad (that they presumably did not study in detail when writing their book) beat the B&O by two years. Thingg^⊕^⊗ 22:03, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

For railroading purposes, the Eastern United States is east of Chicago. The Burlington only operated west of Chicago. That's the distinction you're missing. Mackensen (talk) 22:05, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Ohh ok yeah that makes sense. It might not be a bad idea to put a little blurb in the article to explain that but its up to you. Length, date, NPOV, image licensing, aaand sources (with your explanation) all check out. Should be good to go. Thingg^⊕^⊗ 22:53, 8 November 2013 (UTC)