Turbos return

YEARS have passed since we first reported the rebuilding of seven of Amtrak’s gas-turbine powered trainsets originally supplied to the US operator in 1976. At 09.00 on April 14 the first of two rebuilt RTL-III Turboliners pulled out of Albany to begin revenue service trials on CSX tracks in the ...

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