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Park series
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Budd Company· from 1954· class of 18 Canadian observation and sleeping cars
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Via Rail Park sleeper: Joanne Probyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. Canadian (22263483230): Roger Puta· Public domain
what is it?
The Park series or Park car is a fleet of lightweight streamlined dome-sleeper-observation cars built by the Budd Company for the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1954. Sixteen of the cars were named for a Canadian national or provincial park, while one was named for a wildlife reserve, and one was named for what was at the time a private park owned by Canadian Pacific subsidiary Dominion Atlantic Railway, but is now one of the National Historic Sites of Canada. Via Rail acquired the fleet from Canadian Pacific in 1978 and the majority of the cars remain in active service.
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.
- 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
- 18
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Budd Company
- operators
- Via Rail, Canadian Pacific Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- length
- 25.9 m
- capacity
- 3 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q19877282, Wikipedia: Park series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.