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Placid series
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Pullman Company· from 1956· class of 10 American 11-double-bedroom Pullman (sleeping) car
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what is it?
The Placid series was a fleet of ten lightweight streamlined sleeping cars built by Pullman-Standard for the Union Pacific Railroad in 1956. Each car contained eleven double bedrooms. Amtrak acquired all ten from the Union Pacific and operated them into the 1980s; it retired the last in 1996.
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 70 years ago, in 1956.
- 25.9 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 28 years (1956–1984).
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1956
- in service from
- 1956
- retired
- 1984
- status
- retired
- number built
- 10
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Pullman Company, Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company
- operators
- Pullman Company, Union Pacific Railroad, Amtrak, American Orient Express
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 25.9 m
- capacity
- 11 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q17108600, Wikipedia: Placid series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.