#3173
Hi-Level
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Budd Company· from 1954· class of double-deck American passenger cars
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Sante Fe Railroad El Capitan: Fred Harvey· Public domain
- 2. Passengers of the Southwest Limited strolling beside the Amtrak train at Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1974: Charles O'Rear· Public domain
what is it?
The Hi-Level was a type of bilevel intercity railroad passenger car used in the United States. Car types included coaches, dining cars, and lounge cars; a sleeping car variant was considered but never produced. Most passenger spaces were on the upper level, which featured a row of windows on both sides.
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.
- 25.9 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 64 years (1954–2018).
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1954
- in service from
- 1954
- retired
- 2018
- status
- retired
- number built
- 73
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Budd Company
- operators
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Amtrak
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- length
- 25.9 m
- capacity
- 67 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16975661, Wikipedia: Hi-Level (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.