Superliner (railcar)
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The Superliner is a type of bilevel intercity railroad passenger car used by Amtrak, the national rail passenger carrier in the United States. Amtrak commissioned the cars to replace older single-leve
Superliner I cars on the San Francisco Zephyr in November 1980
Interior of a Superliner I Sightseer lounge
The exterior of a Hi-Level lounge on the El Capitan soon after completion in 1956
Superliners under construction at the Pullman plant in Hammond, Indiana
Hi-Level
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The Hi-Level was a type of bilevel intercity railroad passenger car used in the United States. Car types included coaches, dining cars, and lounge cars; a sleeping car variant was considered but never
Superliner (railcar)
…commissioned the cars to replace older single-level cars on its long-distance trains in the Western United States. The design was based on the Budd Hi-Level cars used by the Santa Fe Railway on its El Capitan trains. Pullman-Standard built 284 cars, known as Superliner I, from 1975 to 1981; Bombardier…
Hi-Level coaches on Amtrak's Southwest Limited at Albuquerque in 1974; the lounge is second from right.
The interior of an Amtrak Pacific Parlour Car, a refurbished lounge
The San Francisco Chief in 1971. The train had both Hi-Level and single-level cars.