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A passenger railroad car or passenger car (American English), also called a passenger carriage, passenger coach (British English and International Union of Railways), or passenger bogie (Indian English) [1] is a railroad car that is designed to carry passengers, usually giving them space to sit on train seats.
In 1935, the Boston and Maine Railroad ordered ten 84-seat and twenty-one 98-seat coaches, followed in 1937 by twenty 92-seat coaches. [1] The Bangor and Aroostook Railroad acquired nine cars of the American Flyer design in 1937 and 1938—four combination mail and baggage cars, three combination food service and coach cars, and two 84-seat coaches.
The Keystone was a set of eight lightweight streamlined cars built by the Budd Company in 1956 for the Pennsylvania Railroad. The set comprised seven coaches seating a total of 574 passengers and a single head end power (HEP) generator car. The train was normally used in New York, New York, to Washington, D.C., service, making two round trips ...
In 1971, Amtrak took over all intercity passenger rail service in the United States. Approximately 1200 streamliner cars were inherited by Amtrak to run these services. In the late 1970s Amtrak began a program to rebuild these cars to use Head-end power (HEP). These rebuilt cars were known as the Heritage Fleet. This rebuild program extended ...
All of the concepts proposed a longer vehicle than the current Type 8/9 cars, with lengths ranging from 100 to 131 ft (30 to 40 m). The MBTA's final concept for the new cars was a 114-foot (35 m) articulated low-floor light rail vehicle made up of 7 segments, riding on 4 trucks, and equipped with 5 sliding doors on each side. [4]: 30–35
Budd proposed coaches that were taller than the typical lightweight passenger car while keeping the streamlined car's length of 85 feet but with double the capacity of cars. To address the issue of the conductor collecting tickets without having to climb stairs, the upper level was designed with its center portion open so that the conductor ...
Pullman-Standard built its last sleeping car in 1956 [17] and its last lightweight passenger cars in 1965, an order of ten coaches for Kansas City Southern. [18] The company continued to market and build cars for commuter rail and subway service and Superliners for Amtrak as late as the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The Worcester factory is popularly remembered as the manufacturer of the American Flyer streamlined passenger car during the 1930s. Walter Dorwin Teague designed a rounded aircraft-style body for railway cars manufactured of Cor-Ten steel. These cars weighed 15 tons less than conventional heavyweight steel cars.
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