The Viewliner is a single-level railroad car type operated by Amtrak on most long-distance routes operating east of Chicago. The first production cars, consisting of an order of 50 sleeping cars, entered service in 1994. From 2015-2016, 70 Viewliner II baggage cars entered service. The new baggage cars are used on all Amtrak trains with full baggage cars, both single-level and bi-level, and replaced all of the Heritage Fleet baggage cars that Amtrak inherited from the freight railroads when it was established in 1971. From 2016-2019, 25 Viewliner II dining cars entered service, which replaced all of the Heritage Fleet dining cars. In 2019, 10 Viewliner II baggage-dormitory cars entered service. The last cars to enter service were 25 Viewliner II sleeping cars in 2021.
Viewliner cars on the Silver Star in March 2021
A Viewliner II roomette
One of the prototype sleeping cars at the Wilmington, DE shops in 2012. Note the Phase III paint scheme.
Pair of Viewliner IIs brings up the rear of a Silver Service train at Wilmington, DE, March 19, 2021.
The sleeping car or sleeper is a railway passenger car that can accommodate all passengers in beds of one kind or another, for the purpose of sleeping. George Pullman was the American innovator of the sleeper car.
Pullman sleeping car, original to the William Crooks locomotive, on display in Duluth, Minnesota
The first American sleeping car, the "Chambersburg" started service on the CVRR in 1839.
Pullman porter making an upper berth aboard the B&O Capitol Limited bound for Chicago, c. 1944
Open section accommodations of a Pullman car in day mode from c.1950s.
