🚆 multiple unit ✓ in service
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4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Gallery Cars Trailed by METX 611 (4925231535): vxla from Chicago, US· CC BY 2.0
- 2. A gallery car on Metra train (195483354): LHOON from Mechelen, Belgium· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. Gallery cars at 4th and King station, November 2008: Ben Godfrey from London, UK, UK· CC BY 2.0
- 4. Metra gallery cars (24529826512): Charles Fulton· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Gallery Car is a bilevel rail car, originally created by the Pullman Company as the Pullman Gallery Car. Besides Pullman, it has had five total different manufacturers since its creation, being Budd, St. Louis Car Company, Amerail, Nippon Sharyo and Canadian Vickers.
fun facts
- First built 76 years ago, in 1950.
- 25.9 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 76 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1950
- in service from
- 1950
- status
- in service
- number built
- —
- kind
- multiple unit
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Pullman Company, Budd Company, Morrison-Knudsen, Canadian Vickers, Nippon Sharyo
- 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 Q60997190, Wikipedia: Gallery Car (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.