#2927
Pacific series
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Budd Company· from 1949· class of 50 American 10-roomette 6-double-bedroom cars
.jpg)
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Pacific Sands Pullman Sleeper (5358102231): David Brossard· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The Pacific series is a fleet of fifty lightweight streamlined sleeping cars built by the Budd Company for the Union Pacific Railroad in 1949–1950. Each car contained ten roomettes and six double bedrooms. Union Pacific sold several to the Chicago, Milwaukee, St.
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 77 years ago, in 1949.
- 25.9 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 77 years.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1949
- in service from
- 1949
- status
- in service
- number built
- 50
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Budd Company
- operators
- Union Pacific Railroad, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, Amtrak, Pullman Company, Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México
- 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 Q16983321, Wikipedia: Pacific series (railcar) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.