Panorama Car

Panorama Car is a name used to describe the Nagoya Railroad's (Meitetsu) limited express trains from 1961 to 1999. The name is often used to refer to trains with a panoramic front view but the term has also been used to refer to a number of other limited express trains without front observation seats.
When the 7000 series trains were introduced the trains were never officially branded; the name began to somewhat spread when Akira Shirai, a brainchild of the 7000 series sets, wrote an article regarding the 7000 series cars in the Railway Pictorial magazine, naming it a "Panorama Observation Car". When the article was published various media outlets began to call the trains Panorama Cars; the name stuck, with Meitetsu using the name as a colloquialism for their 7000 and 7500 series cars. It was only in 1984 when Meitetsu adopted the "Panorama" name officially for one of their cars; the 8800 series sets were designated the Panorama DX. The last time the "Panorama" name was used on a Meitetsu train was in 1999 with the introduction of the 1600 series cars, branded the Panorama Super. The 1700 series cars are technically part of the Panorama Car series, but are not officially named as such.
Meitetsu 7000 2009.jpg|Meitetsu 7000 series "Panorama Car" (1961 – 2009)
Meitetsu 7500 1977.jpg|Meitetsu 7500 series "Panorama Car" (1963 – 2005)
Meitetsu 7300 1992.jpg|Meitetsu 7300 series "Panorama Car" (1971 – 1997)
Meitetsu 7700 2009.jpg|Meitetsu 7700 series "Panorama Car" (1973 – 2010)
Meitetsu 7100 2008.jpg|Meitetsu 7100 series "Panorama Car" (1984 – 2009)
Meitetsu 8800 2004.jpg|Meitetsu 8800 series "Panorama DX" (1984 – 2005)
Meitetsu 1200 2021.jpg|Meitetsu 1000/1200 series "Panorama Super" (1988 – Present)
Meitetsu 1800 2021 2.jpg|Meitetsu 1800/1850 series "Panorama Super" (1991 – Present)
Meitetsu 1600 2008 2.jpg|Meitetsu 1600 series "Panorama Super" (1999 – 2008)
Meitetsu 1700 2021.jpg|Meitetsu 1700 series (2008 – 2021)
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