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**Correction: At the outro of the video, I stated that Amtrak did not buy any of the French RTG turbos. Actually, they did - first they leased units, and then purchased six (6) sets for a total of $18 million.
In 1968, a new train appeared that was going transform American passenger trains. Or so it was planned.
The United Aircraft TurboTrain, a new concept in high-speed rail, made its debut as a radically new form of transportation that will compete with the airlines and make train travel fun again.
None of this worked out as it was supposed to. The Penn Central, which inherited the project, had almost no interest in it.
It was too expensive for Amtrak to operate.
An orphan of the Northeast Corridor, the TurboTrain, while an interesting-looking rail vehicle, simply failed for lack of support in every conceivable way.
Learn the real story of why this innovated train was doomed to failure.
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