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3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. DOT inspection car (9194230166): Clay Gilliland· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. MNRR 293 at Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum, June 2017: Pi.1415926535· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. SPV-2000 shells in at Delaware Car Company, October 2015: Charles Fulton· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Budd SPV-2000 is a self-propelled diesel multiple unit railcar built by the Budd Company between 1978 and 1981 for use on North American commuter railroads. The design was a successor to Budd's popular Rail Diesel Car (RDC) but based on the body of the Amfleet passenger car. It did not prove a success: Budd built 31 cars and they proved mechanically unreliable.
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
- Weighs about as much as 10 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 25.9 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 31
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Budd Company
- operators
- Federal Railroad Administration, ONCF, Amtrak, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Metro-North Railroad, Budd Company, Metropolitan Transit Authority, Connecticut Department of Transportation
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B'B' (as built)
- length
- 25.9 m
- weight
- 57.6 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16974187, Wikipedia: Budd SPV-2000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.