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Streamliners (Illinois Terminal Railroad)
🇺🇸 United States ·built by St. Louis Car Company· from 1948· class of 3 three-car electric multiple units
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Illinois Terminal Railroad streamliner: Audio-Visual Designs, Earlton, NY-Photo by Herbert Georg.· Public domain
what is it?
The Streamliners were a fleet of three streamlined electric multiple units built by the St. Louis Car Company for the Illinois Terminal Railroad in 1948–1949. They operated primarily between 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 78 years ago, in 1948.
- Served for 8 years (1948–1956).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1948
- in service from
- 1948
- retired
- 1956
- status
- retired
- number built
- 3
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- St. Louis Car Company
- operators
- Illinois Terminal Railroad
- top speed
- 129 km/h
- power
- 104 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- 3-car set
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q18157141, Wikipedia: Streamliners (Illinois Terminal Railroad) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.