Amtrak RTL Turboliners on the Adirondack
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- This video shows various scenes of Amtrak Turboliners in service on Amtrak's Adirondack in July 1990. The first few scenes show the same train at Westport, Port Henry and Ticonderoga, NY. Later scenes show various Adirondacks arriving and departing from the D&H depot at Fort Edward, NY. At the time this depot was in poor shape, but it is now nicely restored.
Included in this mix is a quick view of a D&H local with ex-Reading GP39-2 7410 shoving up the Glens Falls Branch.
Listen for "Jingle Bells" being played on the horn by the Adirondack's engineer in two of the Fort Edward scenes.
Sorry for the shaky camera; this was some of my earliest video...taken before I realized how critical a tripod is!
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Love seeing this line when things actually happened on it
Back in 1990, when I was barely ten years old, my grandfather and i drove from Philadelphia to a small town in northern Vermont. I remember we stopped at a restaurant for some grub, and there was a rather busy train line behind it. Much to my amazement and ten-year-old pleasure, a set of Amtrak Turboliners was parked on said tracks. At the time, that was the most incredible and unusual train I had ever seen.
I was only 6. Geeze where does the time go?
That horn is GORGEOUS!
The first time I ever rode Amtrak was either in 1991 or '92, I was 6 or 7, and it was just from Westport to Port Henry. I think it might have been this very train. I can remember there was a reverse-facing locomotive at the end of the train, and that the ends of the locomotives had a sort of bubble shape.
For the interest of those who are TL fans, Rapido Trains has just announced they will be building an HO Scale model of this in all four paint schemes. They are taking pre-orders to gauge interest. They will only build it if they see enough interest. @t Rapido are known for their museum quality level detail and fully complete and detailed interiors. If you are Turbo-liner fan this might be your only chance to get model of it. They also have a cool video on RUclips of a walk through of TL set presently being used for EMS training where she is stored in NJ. It's all linked via their website. Enjoy. I am just a fan who would like to see this happen. I do not work for Rapido.
Oh well. At least there are videos and pictures of these.
Cool! This video was filmed a few days after I was born.
Awesome footage, that's pretty rare!
It was not rare for back then
@@ROTE It's rare to have footage of it. Both in 2013 and in 2021.
I rode one these trains from Montreal to NYP in the summer and the AC was not able to keep up with heat very well...
God I miss those old RTL's. I've had the pleasure of riding them on several occasions and found them to be a very spacious and comfortable ride. Beat the hell out of the cheesy "Amfleet" cars Amtrak uses today and there's no replacement in sight.
I kind of like the design of the amfleets but these trains look really cool and nice to ride on. This is coming from somebody who has never been on a train but these ones probably were some of the best trains out there back before I was born
Thanks for sharing this video, it brings back old memories from when I was a little kid. I remember the seeing the turboliners traveling along Lake Champlain near Fort Ticonderoga in the early to mid nineties. It was a beautiful sight. Unfortunately, I never got a chance to ride on one. Shame to hear they are no more, they were definitely way ahead of their time.
Did you see Champy?
Back in the 70's I worked for Rohr on these turbos In Chula Vista, CA and was sent to Chicago and New York to do control retrofitting. They were beautiful machines way ahead of their time. It's a shame they're gone. I have my memories and pictures of my work on them. They will be missed.
I remember seeing the engines for these being sold on the surplus market back in the late '90s.
There are 2 Turbos stored at Amtrak Adams yard. I believe they are being used for training fire fighters on techniques for evacuation and RR saftey.
Yep the New York State (Acela) Turbos
Well my special needs son hopes that they will be restored to operation real soon or sooner than soon.
Retiring the Turboliners was one of Amtrak's worst decisions.
I would agree, the switch from high speed to medium speed locomotives is a stupid move. VIA rail use to have its own "high speed" train the LRC, which was replaced by slower GE Genesis locomotives. They may be "fast" but not 201 km\h fast
The Turbos are still around but in storage.
The Turbos were good engines. I believe they were retired due to an air conditioner problem.
There are 2 worse decisions they made, 1. The sdp40f's, and 2. Retiring the p5a.
@@nekomasteryoutube3232 Not to mention CN used to operate TurboTrains.
Great video. I didn't know these particular sort of trains existed in the real world.
Rode up front in these a handful of times as my dad was an engineer out of Alb-Rens...not that I remember much but hey, it's something!
The good old days.
It is a pitty they had gone. I would like to had travelled on them but never could
+lailasalas Let's make a petition to bring them back to life! And re-do the last one standing, siting in IN.
Great it could only be used for tourist purposes running special trains instead of regular service
lailasalas
No, regular service. Upgraded cars, repainted engines, faster locomotives, basically an acela, without the power chargers, and serving more routes besides the Keystone Corridor, Empire Corridor, and NE corridor.
I had the chance to travel with this rolling-stock from Hudson N.Y. to New York City (April 1980) and from Albany N.Y. to New York City (August 1991) . Greetings from a Railway fan from Greece.
@@lailasalasMy special needs son agrees with you on that completely!
Nice
This train now sits deteriorating at Amtrak's bear car shops in bear Delaware of us 40 along side the Norfolk southern Delmarva secondary track.
Well my special needs son hopes and prays 🙏 that it will be restored to operation real soon or sooner than soon!
I rode on a couple Hiawatha RTG Turbos CHI to MLW and back in 1977 and a westbound Empire State Express RTL Turbo NYP to ROC in the 90s (That RTL had a bad flat spot on one of its wheels detracting from an otherwise very pleasant ride.)
Questions: Why did these trains always have such “snotty noses” - what caused that brown stripe on the nose either side of the headlight? It looks like heat damage. Would the exhaust from the turbine waft down over the nose on trailing Turbocoaches scorching the paint?
When you wanna go fast but the RR says nah.
5:14 I heard jingle bells, was that scene filmed around Christmastime? Just wondering? Plus, it sucks Amtrak sold all these, I would have loved to have ridden on these Amtraks, plus, nice horns.
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Actually it was the middle of the summer. The engineer was known for doing that year-round.
It's a shame. A beautiful trainset capable of great speeds relegated to bad track. Same for the French Turbos on the PC line in Michigan.
Woow!! That m5 horn!
borice sellers Where did you hear an M5?
x тғw at 2:00 made me think it's a m5. I could be wrong though.
It's actually a Nathan p1234a5 (variation of the p5)
There is actually a sample from this exact video of the horn ! ruclips.net/video/h9Kx5LBznuA/видео.html
The bell is so out of place on a modern train like that… like having a hauge horn from a model T on a Ferrari .
True. Plus I have an HO scale RTG Turbo.
Negative. The NY ones were all cut up just a few weeks ago. Seen photos of the cars on their sides, sans trucks.
They were so far ahead of their time, now they are all razor blades.
I rode them many times on business between Albany and NYC. The Turbo Trains were fine between Albany and GCT (when they worked). Having them on the Adirondack was simply dumb. Low speed, old track. What was the purpose?
Yes, the trains in the video are the Rohr RTL Turboliners, which were recently refurbished for the second time as RTL III, but cancelled and sold for scrap due to political and cost overrun problems. The refurbs looked great, but they were fuel guzzlers and still almost thirty years old by the time the reburb project was cancelled after not even halfway completed.
they were sold at aucton. i have the invite in the email some where. i beleive they were in utica when sold
@@martindoyle831 My son would like to know who they were sold to?
I heard they are available for sale.
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