Amfleet

Amfleet I coaches at Iselin, NJ
Production
Manufacturer	Budd Company
Year produced	1975-1977
Year scrapped	Active
Service	Outside western United States
Notes	Known as Amcans
Specifications
Top speed	120 mph, 193 km/h
Capacity per car	As much as 84
Number produced	492 I 150 II
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Amfleet (Also called Amcans by railfans) refers to two series of intercity railroad passenger cars built for Amtrak by Budd Company from 1975-1977, and 1981/83 totalling 492 Amfleet I cars (406 coaches and 86 Amcafes) and 150 Amfleet II cars (125 coaches and 25 lounges). The Amfleet cars were intended to replace the variety of sometimes incompatible and aging fleet of streamlined passenger cars, known as the Heritage Fleet, acquired from Amtrak's predecessor railroads. Railfans practicing their hobby at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. ... Acela Express in West Windsor, NJ Amtrak Cascades service with tilting Talgo trainsets in Seattle, Washington Amtrak train in downtown Orlando, Florida For other uses, see Amtrak (disambiguation). ... Budd logo A rear view of Santa Fes El Capitan and its Budd-built observation car as it approaches the Raton Tunnel (Colorado side) on June 26, 1938. ... Amtraks Heritage Fleet program was started was started in 1977 to equip older cars from Amtraks predecessor railroads to Head End Power (HEP). ...

Amfleet cars were constructed as Coach, Amcafe, Amdinette, Amlounge and Amclub.

The car is aerodynamic in appearance. Some of the engineering work was based upon the Metroliner car design. This car was designed to be able to work in the Northeast Corridor at speeds of up to 120 miles per hour (193 km/h). It was nicknamed Amcan because it's shape is rounded and made out of aluminum, much to the design of a can^[1]. Budd Pennsylvania Railroad Metroliner multiple-unit car circa 1968. ... ...

Today, Amfleet cars are used extensively throughout the Amtrak system outside the western United States.

Amfleet rolling stock disappeared from service in California when the San Joaquins switched to the Horizon Fleet in the 1990s and then to "California Cars" in the late 90's. The San Diegans also stopped using the Amfleet when their Pacific Surfliner cars were delivered, and the Pacific Northwest Cascades now use Talgo trainsets. The San Joaquins refers to a train route operated by Amtrak California in Californias Central Valley. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... The southbound San Diegan passes through San Clemente with the Pacific Ocean as its backdrop in April 1973. ... // Northbound Pacific Surfliner Cab Car crosses Carlsbad Village Dr. in Carlsbad, Ca. ... The Pacific Northwest from space This page is about the region that includes parts of Canada and the United States. ... The Amtrak Cascades is a passenger train operated by Amtrak in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada. ... Tilting Amtrak Cascades passenger cars use the Talgo design. ...

Car types

Amtrak currently operates Amfleet I and Amfleet II cars. Some cars are Amfleet Coach cars, which have 84 Coach seats per car. The longer-distance coaches having 60 seats per car. Amtrak also operates the Amcafe car, which has 53 Coach seats with a snack bar in the middle of the car. Amdinettes have 23 Coach seats on one end of the car, a snack bar in the middle, and 8 tables that seat 32 passengers on the other end of the car. Amclub cars have 23 Coach seats on one end of the car, a snack bar in the middle, and 18 Club seats on the other end of the car. The Club seats were more spacious and usually required an upgrade to Business Class or other deluxe service.

Amfleet cars proved successful enough in Amtrak service for Amtrak to contract with Budd for more cars. This second series of cars are known as Amfleet II cars. In 1981, Budd delivered 125 Amfleet II Coaches and 25 Amlounges. The Amfleet II cars were intended to replace rolling stock on Amtrak long-distance trains, featuring larger windows and more legroom for passengers, as well as a vestibule (door) only at one end of the car. Because Amfleet cars have the ability to fit through tunnels and under catenary in the northeastern United States, Amtrak tends to use them heavily in that area. The Amfleet II Coach seats 55 - 59 Coach passengers per car due to the cars being intended for the longer-distance routes, while the Amfleet II Amlounge contains 17 Lounge Seats with 8 tables that can serve a total of 32 passengers from a snack bar located in the car. Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ...

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Paint schemes

Amfleet I car in Phase V colors

The Amfleet I cars are the only Amtrak rolling stock to have carried all five normal paint jobs. All paint jobs were referred to as "Phases". Phase I-painted Amfleet cars had red and blue large stripes around the windows and white thin strips on each end of the pattern. This car also contained the Amtrak "Pointless Arrow" on one end of the car. Phase II paint then came to replace Phase I paint. Amtrak's Phase II was the same as Phase I, however it eliminated the arrow logo, allegedly due to the reference of "Pointless Arrow." The information (Amtrak and coach number) was printed in white. Phase III paint is still in service on some Amfleet cars. It is also a design of stripes that borders the windows, and had the three blue, red and white stripes, however only in same-sized increments rather than the large blue and red and small white bands on the Phase I and II cars. In addition to the I and II cars, the Phase III-decorated cars had black Amtrak symbols as well as black coach numbers to enable reading from a greater distance. Phase IV paint had a totally different design then the striped ones. While it was still striped, it's color scheme contained a blue stripe outlining the windows, and a smaller red and then still-small white stripes along the top of the blue one. This Phase is also still in use. The most recent of the Phases is Phase V paint, also known as the Acela Phase. This is also still used but wasn't completed due to the inability to further-fund a project for these cars. As a result, the currently-operated Amfleet trains could consist a train mixed of Phase III, Phase IV and Phase V/Acela cars all pulled by the same engine. The Acela paint scheme contained different things depending upon the type of car it was. These cars had "Splotches" on them. The Coach class car was decorated by a turquoise window stripe and a darker-shaded turquoise splotch, and the Business class car was decorated by a navy blue window stripe but a light-turquoise splotch. Cafe cars were decorated with light-turquoise splotches and navy blue window stripes, however, there were no windows where the snack bar was and there was a patch of spring green in the center of the car. All Phase V-painted cars were renumbered to the eighty-thousands rather than the twenty-thousands. Trains today consist of mixed schemes on the Amfleet cars (eg. one Amfleet car that is in Phase III paint could be connected to one in Phase IV). Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Turquoise (or turquois) is opaque, blue-to-green hydrated copper aluminium phosphate mineral according to the chemical formula CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8·5H2O. It is rare and valuable in finer grades and has been enjoyed as a gem and ornamental stone for thousands of years owing to its unique... Spring Green is a shade of green that resembles the spring. ...

Amfleet II cars in service today incorporate the Phase III and Phase IV schemes, however the appearance of the door at only one end and the larger window sized-door were, of course, different that Amfleet I cars.

Specifications and build

An Amfleet car stands about 12 feet, 8 inches, is 10 feet, 6 inches wide, and is 85 feet long. A cafe weighs about 110,000 pounds while a coach weighs about 116,000 pounds. Every Amfleet car (including cafes) have a restroom. Amfleet seats have traytables to eat back at seat. Cars are equipped with heat and can pump air conditioning as well. Amtrak Afleet cars also give the passenger privacy with tinted windows. Regular coach cars have nine separate passenger windows.^[3]

Incidents

Some incidents on Amfleet cars were:

• Train 680 was an Amtrak train with Amfleet cars. Train 680 fell of the rail, causing 15 total fatalities. The Amfleet car designated for Chicago had the most fatalities, and 18 of 76 injured passengers were hospitalized.^[4]
• Chase, Maryland rail wreck was an incident where some Conrail employees were smoking a Marijuana joint and thus were not paying attention to signals that were allowing Amtrak Train #94 to pass. Between Baltimore and Wilmington, at the Gunpow Interlocking at Gunpowder River, the tracks squeezed and the three mis-controlled Conrail engines collided with an EMD AEM-7 engine, 903, which was followed by another EMD AEM-7, 900, killing 16 people. Two Conrail engines were destroyed completely, but one was returned to service later. Amtrak engines 900 and 903 were destroyed, and several Amtrak cars were thrown around and piled, some being destroyed.

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Gallery

Amfleet I car #21267. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ...	Amfleet car #82069, winter of early '03. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ...	Amfleet II coaches 25094 (left) and 25056 (center), followed by two more Amfleet cars visible in this photo. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ...	Amfleet II cars have larger windows on the doors than Amfleet I cars. A mix of these is shown to the left of the image. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ...
A Railfone booth in an Amfleet II Amlounge Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...	An Amfleet car in the center is surrouned by a Horizon Fleet car to the left, and a Viewliner to the right. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... The Viewliner is a single-level sleeping car used by Amtrak on eastern routes. ...	The panel in an Amfleet car to open or close the doors on the traincars. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ...	Amfleet car number 21947. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ...

References, Footnotes and Sources

References above as well as these two: ^{[5] [6]}, will appear below.

See also

• Amtrak passenger cars
  • Amfleet
  • Horizon Fleet
  • Heritage Fleet
  • Superliner
  • Talgo Cars
  • Viewliner

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External links

• Amtrak Photo Archives
• Graphics showing Amfleet