California Car

what is it?

The California Car is the first generation of intercity railcars owned by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and operated by Amtrak under the Amtrak California brand on intercity corridor routes in Northern and Central California. The cars were built in the mid-1990s for the Caltrans Division of Rail by Morrison–Knudsen and the American Passenger Rail Car Company (Amerail). The cars are similar in exterior dimensions to Amtrak's Superliner, but original in design to provide rolling stock suitable for California intercity services up to six hours, with more frequent stops than most other Amtrak routes.

who runs it

AmtrakAmtrak California

base stats

• speed 201 km/htop speed
• seats 89passengers
• built 66made in total

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

• 🏎️Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• ⏱️At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
• 📏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

66

kind

carriage / wagon

origin

🇺🇸 United States

builders

Morrison-Knudsen

operators

Amtrak, Amtrak California

top speed

201 km/h

power

—

gauge

1,435 mm standard gauge

formation

single car

length

25.9 m

capacity

89 passengers

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.