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Pine series
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Pullman Company· from 1953· class of 29 Pullman 6-6-4 sleeping cars
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- 1. Colorado Pine (20075878410): Charles Fulton· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Pine series was a fleet of sleeping cars built by Pullman-Standard in 1953. The cars were built according to Pullman plan 4183; each contained six sections, six roomettes and four double bedrooms (colloquially "6-6-4"). The cars were originally owned by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N), the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad (C&EI), and the Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
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 73 years ago, in 1953.
- 25.9 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 18 years (1953–1971).
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1953
- in service from
- 1953
- retired
- 1971
- status
- retired
- number built
- 29
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Pullman Company, Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company
- operators
- Pullman Company, Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 25.9 m
- capacity
- 26 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16983583, Wikipedia: Pine series (railcar) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.