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. An initial order for 57 cars in 1973 to supplement the Metroliners on the Northeast Corridor grew to two orders totaling 642 cars, sufficient to reequip all the services on the Northeast Corridor and many other routes around the United States. The first 492 cars, known as Amfleet I and completed between 1975 and 1977, were designed for short-distance service. A second order of 150 cars, known as Amfleet II and completed between 1980 and 1983, were designed for long-distance service. They were the last intercity passenger cars built by Budd.
Amfleet I coaches at Kingston station, Rhode Island
Amfleet I coach seats
The Budd Metroliners were the basis of the Amfleet design.
Mid-1970s postcard advertising the then-new Amfleet cars
A passenger railroad car or passenger car, also called a passenger carriage, passenger coach, or passenger bogie is a railroad car that is designed to carry passengers. The term passenger car can also be associated with a sleeping car, a baggage car, a dining car, railway post office and prisoner transport cars.
Superliner double-deck auto-train lounge car operated by Amtrak
Trenitalia passenger car UIC-Z1
A very small passenger car operated by ČSD
Restored clerestory cars on display at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in North Freedom, Wisconsin