SAR Sheathed Dining Car (Type 1, Side B)         
This dining car has a sheathed wooden body with a tapered roof peak at one end and seventeen standard size windows. 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. This one was restored for use by The Union Limited, a luxury passenger train. The interior layout is, from the right, an ice box in the corner on the A side, a bar with a passage around it on the B side, and the dining room.

SAR Type A-22, Built 1927-28, Length over body 60' 3", Height 12' 5 7/16", Width 8' 9", To seat 46.
Date: 10/19/2009 Location: Voorbaai, Mo  Country Flag Views: 548 Collection Of:   Col AndrĂ© Kritzinger
Rolling Stock: SAS 217 (Diner) Author:  Andre Kritzinger
SAR Sheathed Dining Car (Type 1, Side B)
Picture Categories: Passenger This picture is part of album:  South Africa's Rolling Stock - Passenger Mainline
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