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Sun Lounge
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Pullman Company· from 1956· class of 3 American sleeper-lounge passenger railroad cars
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3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Hollywood Beach (13970159990): Walter from Tampa/St Petersburg, Florida· CC BY 2.0
- 2. Seaboard Railroad Sun Lounge postcard: Dexter Press, New York· Public domain
- 3. Seaboard Railroad Sun Lounge postcard cropped: Dexter Press, New York· Public domain
what is it?
The Sun Lounges were a fleet of three streamlined sleeper-lounge cars built by Pullman-Standard for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) in 1956. The cars featured a distinctive glazed roof area meant to capture the ambience of a dome car in a lower profile, as tunnels on the East Coast of the United States prevented the use of dome cars there. The Seaboard employed all three Sun Lounges on its flagship Silver Meteor between New York City and Miami, Florida.
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 24 years (1956–1980).
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1956
- in service from
- 1956
- retired
- 1980
- status
- retired
- number built
- 3
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Pullman Company
- operators
- Seaboard Air Line Railroad, Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, Amtrak
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 25.9 m
- capacity
- 5 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16985155, Wikipedia: Sun Lounge (railcar) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.