Amfleet is a fleet of single-level intercity railroad passenger cars built by the Budd Company for American company Amtrak in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Budd based the Amfleet design on its earlier Metroliner electric multiple unit.

Aug 21, 2022 · All in-service Amfleet cars are now trainline-equipped so they can be operated with cab control cars or locomotives at both ends of the consist. The 492 Amfleet 1 coaches …

Mar 30, 2025 · The westbound Empire Builder, with five Amfleet cars between the locomotives and its usual consist, passes through Brookfield, Wis., on March 29, 2025. The Amfleet cars are being moved to the Pacific Northwest for Cascades service. David Lassen CHICAGO – Amtrak continues to reshuffle its equipment ...

Amtrak operates a fleet of 2,142 railway cars and 425 locomotives for revenue runs and service, collectively called rolling stock.

Apr 1, 2024 · Amfleet was the adaptation of Budd’s Metroliner high speed train of the 1960s into a standardized locomotive-hauled passenger car. The name “Amfleet” was coined by the …

Amfleet is a fleet of single-level intercity railroad passenger cars built by the Budd Company for American company Amtrak in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Budd based the Amfleet design on its earlier Metroliner electric multiple unit.

Feb 1, 2021 · The Amfleet cars were Amtrak's first locomotive-hauled cars equipped with head-end power (HEP) instead of steam heating, requiring them to run exclusively with locomotives equipped with HEP generators.

Apr 20, 2023 · Two veteran railroaders with 110 years’ experience between them have called for Amtrak to phase out use of Amfleet I equipment on the Northeast Corridor (NEC) for safety reasons.

Boasting larger windows and more comfortable seating conditions, the Amfleet II was designed for longer distance travel than its predecessor, the Amfleet I, while still retaining the versatility that its single-level height could provide over its taller, double-decker Superliner brethren.

The Budd Amfleet cars were a fleet of 642 modern streamlined passenger cars ordered to modernize the failure prone cars the railroad inherited. The Amfleet’s have decades of reliability under their belt, and were crucial to the rejuvenation of passenger rail service in both the Northeast and throughout the network.