In summer 1959 we drove from Pittsburgh to Yellowstone Park where my parents had met in 1927 as "gear jammer" (tourist driver) and "bubble queen" (laundry work at Mammoth lodge), then to Missoula where they & my sister & I boarded the North Coast Limited for Portland with bedroom suite in dome sleeper (below); also enjoyed the big baked potato. I remember Bonneville Dam on the Columbia (below). On return we took train to Seattle from Kelso/Longview and Olympian Hiawatha back to Missoula with 2 sections in 16-section "Mt. Wilson" Touralux sleeping car (below), less expensive than regular sleepers. The full-length dome allowed great views of great scenery in the Cascades, but the seats did not at all allow forward viewing the way the smaller Vista-Domes did. The highlight was the Skytop Lounge (below). Some years back my wife & I rode the parlor car version (car named Cedar Rapids as I recall) on a Friends of the 261 trip from Chicago to St. Paul and I was reminded that the glass-enclosed end of the car is smaller than those of the sleeping cars on the Olympian Hiawatha (simply because the number of bedrooms took up less space than the 20+ parlor chairs).