| This dining car, the UMTATA, has an all wooden body with a tapered roof peak at one end. Dining cars run permanently coupled to kitchen cars with their squared roof peak ends coupled together, and are always positioned in the middle of the train. The interior layout is, from the right, a bar with a passage around it on the A side, and the dining room. This one was restored for use by The Union Limited, a luxury passenger train.SAR Type A-31, Built 1942-43, Number range 236 to 246, Length over headstocks 63' 5", Height 12' 1 7/16", Width 9' 3", To seat 42. |