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Amfleet
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Budd Company· from 1975· Single-level rail car in use by Amtrak
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Amfleet cars at Kingston: Pi.1415926535· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Phase VII Amfleet I car on Amtrak Vermonter November 2025: 4300streetcar· CC BY 4.0
- 3. Amfleet (14153974922): Walter from Tampa/St Petersburg, Florida· CC BY 2.0
- 4. Amfleet postcard, circa 1975: Amtrak· Public domain
- 5. Amtrak Downeaster conductor standing in Amfleet car doorway: Ben Schumin· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. Air conditioning unit on Amtrak Amfleet car VA: CZmarlin — Christopher Ziemnowicz, a photo credit would be appreciated if this image is used anywhere other than Wikipedia. Please leave a note at Wikipedia here . Thank you!· Public domain
- 7. Amfleet cars in Harrisburg: LHOON· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 8. Amfleet cars in Pittsburgh: Vicky van Dal· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. Amfleet of Amtrak Clocker in Philadelphia: Vicky van Dal· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. Amfleet on Pennsylvanian (rear): Vicky van Dal· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
Amfleet is a fleet of single-level intercity railroad passenger cars built by the Budd Company for American company Amtrak in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Budd based the Amfleet design on its earlier Metroliner electric multiple unit. An initial order for 57 cars in 1973 to supplement the Metroliners on the Northeast Corridor grew to two orders totaling 642 cars, sufficient to reequip all the services on the Northeast Corridor and many other routes around the United States.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 51 years ago, in 1975.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
- 25.9 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 51 years.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1975
- in service from
- 1975
- status
- in service
- number built
- 642
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Budd Company
- operators
- Amtrak
- top speed
- 201 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- Single car
- length
- 25.9 m
- capacity
- 84 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2843168, Wikipedia: Amfleet (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.