Turboliner
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The Turboliners were a family of gas turbine trainsets built for Amtrak in the 1970s. They were among the first new equipment purchased by Amtrak to update its fleet with faster, more modern trains. T
An RTG Turboliner at Union Station in St Louis, Missouri in 1974
A conductor collects tickets aboard a Midwestern Turboliner in 1974.
An RTL Turboliner crosses the Seneca River near Savannah, New York, in 1984
Interior on an RTL train in 1988
New York high-speed rail
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High-speed rail in the U.S. state of New York has been consistently discussed among legislators, political leaders and in particular, several past governors since the 1990s, but thus far little progre
Turboliner
…there through the 1990s, supplemented by several rebuilt RTGs. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, New York and Amtrak partnered to rebuild the RTLs for high-speed service; this project failed, and the last RTL trainsets left revenue service in 2003. After the settlement of legal issues, New York sold the remaining trainsets…
An RTL Turboliner in the 1980s.