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Slumbercoach
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Budd Company· model of 18 American 24-single room 8-double bedroom sleeping cars
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Northern Pacific 325 at the Illinois Railway Museum: H. Michael Miley from Schaumburg, USA· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Slumbercoach is an 85-foot-long, 24 single room, eight double room streamlined sleeping car. Built in 1956 by the Budd Company for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad for service on the Denver Zephyr, subsequent orders were placed in 1958 and 1959 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and Missouri Pacific Railroad for the Texas Eagle/National Limited, then in 1959 by the Northern Pacific Railway for its North Coast Limited and also the New York Central Railroad for use on the 20th Century Limited.
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
- 25.9 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 18
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Budd Company
- operators
- Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, Northern Pacific Railway, New York Central Railroad, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Missouri Pacific Railroad, Amtrak
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 25.9 m
- capacity
- 40 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7542298, Wikipedia: Slumbercoach (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.