The invention of the Vista Dome

The railway dome car was invented and patented by Canadian T. J. McBride of Winnipeg. Manitoba.  These two illustrations showing the idea are from the May 2,1891 issue of Scientific American. Unfortunately none were never built. The public would have to wait till after WW2 for railway dome cars.

Mr. McBride was a thinking man, he has other patents to his name, mostly having to do with a stove for burning straw. No word on whether it was built either.