🚆 multiple unit ✓ in service
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4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Gallery Cars Trailed by METX 611 (4925231535): vxla from Chicago, US· CC BY 2.0
- 2. A gallery car on Metra train (195483354): LHOON from Mechelen, Belgium· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. Gallery cars at 4th and King station, November 2008: Ben Godfrey from London, UK, UK· CC BY 2.0
- 4. Metra gallery cars (24529826512): Charles Fulton· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Gallery Car is a bilevel rail car, originally created by the Budd Company in 1950 for Commuter Operations on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad's Suburban Service. Besides Budd, it has had six total different manufacturers since its creation, being Pullman-Standard, St. Louis Car Company, American Car & Foundry, Canadian Vickers, Amerail, and Nippon Sharyo.
fun facts
- First built 76 years ago, in 1950.
- 25.9 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 76 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1950
- in service from
- 1950
- status
- in service
- number built
- —
- kind
- multiple unit
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Budd Company, Pullman Company, Canadian Vickers, Morrison-Knudsen, Nippon Sharyo
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 25.9 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q60997190, Wikipedia: Gallery Car (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-11-14.