Pan Am Trains

Pan Am Trains (reporting mark PATX) is a privately-owned intercity passenger railroad company. A subsidiary of Pan Am Holdings, Pan Am Trains was founded in 2014 with the intent of challenging the monopoly on American national intercity passenger travel held by the quasi-public. Service began in 2018.

Pan Am Trains uses existing trackage of the, and , as well as the trackage of some smaller regional railroads such as the New England Western Railroad and the.

History
In 2010, Tigran Shahinyan, a Pan Am Holdings executive, conceptualized the idea for a privately-owned-and-operated competitor to, the quasi-public organization that has controlled national intercity rail service in the US since 1971.

On August 1, 2014, Pan Am Holdings owner and president emeritus Martein Rademakers announced the establishment of Pan Am Trains as the first national privately-owned-and-operated intercity rail service in the US to compete with Amtrak since the 's termination of its Rio Grande Zephyr service in 1983. The company would be led by Shahinyan as president and former SFG Railway Operations executive Peter Bouchardon as CEO.

At the time of establishment, Pan Am announced the new railway service's headquarters would be based in the.

Technical
Pan Am Trains ordered twelve Siemens trainsets in 2016. Each Pan Am Trains trainset initially consisted of eight passenger coaches, with a Siemens Charger SCB-40 diesel-electric locomotive on each end. Each trainset is built by Siemens at their plant in.

In 2022, Pan Am Trains received a delivery of an additional twelve Siemens trainsets, comprising nine passenger coaches, with a Siemens Charger SCV-42 diesel-electric locomotive on each end.