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Château series
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Budd Company· from 1954· class of 29 Canadian sleeping cars
what is it?
The Château series is a fleet of 29 lightweight streamlined sleeping cars built by the Budd Company for the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1954. Each contained eight duplex roomettes, four sections, three bedrooms, and one drawing room. The cars were named for distinguished French Canadians.
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 72 years ago, in 1954.
- Weighs about as much as 10 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 25.9 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 71 years.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1954
- in service from
- 1955
- status
- in service
- number built
- 29
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Budd Company
- operators
- Via Rail, Canadian Pacific Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- length
- 25.9 m
- weight
- 60.8 t
- capacity
- 8 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q19864565, Wikipedia: Château series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.