Engines of Amtrak - Turboliner [REMAKE]

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Amtrak in the early 1970s was still fumbling around with their rag-tag gallery of antiquated and rustic equipment. While the railroad had received their first new locomotive in the form of the ill-fated EMD SDP40F, it wasn't saving Amtrak from bad press and negative public perception. By 1973, much of the general public was viewing Amtrak as merely just slapping their paint scheme and logo onto aging and unreliable equipment. On top of that, the SDP40F was more commonly assigned to long distance trains heading out of Chicago to the west coast, leaving old equipment to manage the intercity trains outside the Northeast Corridor. So, Amtrak placed a new focus on faster intercity trains and looked to the more railway-innovative Europe for answers. This resulted in the French Turboliner train-set. How did the Turboliner turn out on Amtrak and what led to their quiet removal from service? Find out in this remade episode of Engines of Amtrak!
Series Playlist: • Engines of Amtrak
Music Used:
Super Mario Galaxy - File Select
Alan Hawkshaw - Tristar
David McCallum - Penny Lane
Bruton Music - Accentuated Energy
Bruton Music - Workin'
Bruton Music - Runner
David McCallum - A Man And A Woman
Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Freezy Flake Galaxy
Paper Mario The Thousand-Year Door - Mail for the Mario Brothers
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@AmtrakGuy365 3 жыл бұрын

Heya, thanks for watching the video! I hope you enjoyed this remake! Its definitely way better than the original episode from 2017 lol. I'll be keeping the original episode up if you wanna compare the two or just go back and watch the old one. I hope you'll look forward to the future Engines of Amtrak remakes in the coming months, along with Engines of New York Central!

@Orangeshirt_Railfan 3 жыл бұрын

Ooo cool also love the music

@NERJ607 3 жыл бұрын

yes

@dr.huskigaming4575 3 жыл бұрын

Can you publish all of your art? On a website

@manny454railfanning9 3 жыл бұрын

Where did you get the RTG for Trainz

@YukariAkiyamaTanks 3 жыл бұрын

@@manny454railfanning9 I made the RTG

@Pensyfan19 3 жыл бұрын

Nice remake! Amtrak definitely needs more multiple units like the turboliners for intercity service.

@railfansbizarreadventure7458 3 жыл бұрын

Nice to see you again pensyfan19 :)

@nathancorcoran5347 2 жыл бұрын

It is amazing.

@Transportationfan1421 Жыл бұрын

Welp they making new ALC 42Es now

@AlexanderPerez-hv4nu Жыл бұрын

Well, now they are in the form of “Amtrak Airó” trains

@VestedUTuber Жыл бұрын

Due to highly variable ridership, they'd have to be modular units like the old BUDD RDCs or the South Shore Line's Nippon-Sharyo units, rather than true semi-permanent coupled DMUs/EMUs.

@nx9100 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, and great job! I had no idea the Turboliners survived past the 80's, much less into the 2000's!

@ivovanzon164 Жыл бұрын

2:37 They had 3 customers for the original RTG: SNCF (orange), Amtrak (red/white/blue) and Iranian Railways (blue). After decommissioning the SNCF ones were shipped to Iran and fitted with their signature sand filter intakes. Egyptian railways also bought a few with a more TGV like nose design For the capacity issue: In France they added MU capability to these, which Amtrak never got (no connector plugs on the nose)

@coastaku1954 2 жыл бұрын

It's really sad that the newer Turboliners weren't put into service on the Empire Service or Maple Leaf, I think they would have made for a great Intercity train between Toronto and New York

@611_hornet5 3 жыл бұрын

Anime girls and Amtrak equipment? Yeah that earns a sub from me.

@siriusxakanscaleguy7147 3 жыл бұрын

I call people who like trains and anime Choochooweebs

@TheMrPeteChannel 3 жыл бұрын

They have nothing in common! Like Cheese & Plasma.

@siriusxakanscaleguy7147 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheMrPeteChannel Plasmafromage

@fortcrafterbossbehold9027 9 күн бұрын

@@siriusxakanscaleguy7147 What would you call some who likes anime girls, cars, trucks, planes, trains, boats, and piston engines???

@michaelpham8368 3 жыл бұрын

The Second Skillshare sponsored Engines of Amtrak. Amtrakguy is starting to become really popular now

@demonorca9539 3 жыл бұрын

Could you make a video about Amtrak's F and E-units? I know they were inherited equipment, but I still think they deserve some love since they played a huge role in Amtrak's beginning as their first few locomotives.

@daniellucas6573 3 жыл бұрын

I wanted to know more about this particular train.

@officialnewyork_railfan6822 3 жыл бұрын

All i know is that this multiple unit was really successful but retired around the 2000’s and it was based off a French multiple unit

@nathancorcoran5347 2 жыл бұрын

@@officialnewyork_railfan6822 It is quite a cool train set in the United States (🇺🇸) made from France (🇫🇷).

@officialnewyork_railfan6822 2 жыл бұрын

@@nathancorcoran5347 it sure is

@nathancorcoran5347 2 жыл бұрын

@@officialnewyork_railfan6822 and the other train set, that was made and ran in the United States only. The RTL and RTG train sets are awesome.

@officialnewyork_railfan6822 2 жыл бұрын

@@nathancorcoran5347 yea

@bluebellsfan8704 3 жыл бұрын

Yes! A new story of engines of Amtrak! I love this series! Great episode!

@jkkeck Жыл бұрын

Towards the end of their career in the Midwest, Amtrak's RTG Turbos operated with their cafe cars next to one of the powered end cars. The cafe car would serve to divide the regular 2x2 coach seating on most of the train from a small first-class section with 1x2 premium "business-class" seating and services. Also interesting to note that while the French trainsets had baggage space with access doors on each side, I do not recall them running on trains that offered checked baggage service.

@DavidNightjet 3 жыл бұрын

I was actually across the tracks from the Adams yard like a week and a half ago. Was so excited when I saw the two RTL-IIIs still there. It was so surreal, seeing the abandoned Turboliners sitting quietly with the new ACS-64s passing them. The two don't even look out of place next to each other irl because of the RTL rebuilds. And you could easily confuse an RTL-III for an Acela if you don't know what you're looking at (the guy at the model train shop I stopped at earlier today did just that before I told him they're Turboliners).

@DavidNightjet 3 жыл бұрын

forgot to mention: I posted a couple of the pictures I took of them to Twitter if anyone wants to check em out twitter.com/DavidNightjet/status/1400212569902792706?s=20

@tehangrybird345 2 жыл бұрын

12:21 I never thought BFB Woody would appear on an AmtrakGuy365 video

@CommodoreJames 3 жыл бұрын

Not only I am interested in the Engines of Amtrak series, learning the history of various passenger locomotives. I also enjoy the comedic anime skits you add in the vid which made me laugh. Good adding of comedy.

@Gravity461 Жыл бұрын

How did I not know that the rtl existed??! I even came across the yard in new haven on Google earth and was super confused about what that train set was, and I couldn’t find anything about it. Thanks for this video. Explains a lot.

@anthrax2525 Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing Turboliners running when I was a little kid. They were on what (I know now) was the old New York Central line through Whiting, Indiana.

@1BigBlackhawksFan Жыл бұрын

They also split and went south through Dyer. I remember seeing them in Whiting park and Dyer when I was a kid and through my teen years. I did get to ride one from NYC to Rochester NY. It was so cool. I remember it being fast and the huge windows. It was really cool.

@truthsayers8725 3 жыл бұрын

i usually have a very good memory for dates but i dont seem to in this case. my family (mom, dad a GTW employee, my sister and i) went to Kalamazoo from Port Huron on an RTL turboliner when they were running. My sister ended up going to school in K-zoo but it wasnt until 1980. i dont remember being 15 when we road the train but i must have been. our neighbor Pete Mainguy was a conductor for Amtrak and he invited my dad and i up to the power unit to watch the scenery for about 10 or 15 minutes. i just cant seem to remember being that old when we did this. i love your videos. you are clear and concise and keep them to a reasonable length. keep them coming

@spenceranderson2072 3 жыл бұрын

Amtrak seems to like trying to rebuild a locomotive time that they’re actively replacing

@TheMrPeteChannel Ай бұрын

Well the idea was to let NY state take them over. Watch, Amtrak will freshen up the Superliners, Viewliners, Horizons & Amfleets & try to sell them to States after they get new Siemens Airotrains.

@marcleslac2413 11 ай бұрын

Can we get a F in the chat for the recently scrapped turboliner.

@fortcrafterbossbehold9027 9 күн бұрын

@NScaleTrainBoy 3 жыл бұрын

How did I forget that Rensselaer was the RTL service center! As someone who goes to RENSSELAER Polytechnic Institute, I love that kind of “local” rail history! As always, love the video and the info, and keep up the awesome videos! Enjoy your summer!

@jimmypetrock 2 жыл бұрын

its nice that it mainly comes out of Chicago the Turboliners in the beginning

@SeanBodine 3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you showed one of the sets in it's "X2000" livery.

@Doll.The.Solver 8 ай бұрын

Man, Tristar is such an great soundtrack, especially cuz it’s from the Australian train movie, coming on the right track!

@griffinrails 3 жыл бұрын

yoo tristar the song i uploaded am happy now :) in al seriousness, its awesome that this remake was made.the turbotrain was always my favourite amtrak trains.

@kodachromerailroadvideos6571 3 жыл бұрын

Your RTG reskin is amazing

@malachimuhammad-dy2ow 10 ай бұрын

I'm starting to think that Amtrak should build more Turboliners for the Northeast Corridor, and that proposal should be accepted.

@benmedina6382 2 жыл бұрын

My dad built the prototype of the last turbo and did all the test on it. Everything passed with flying colors. Still complains to this day about supersteel messing everything up, ac wasn't the only problem, all the water was stored above the toilets, when the train would power down and lose air pressure all the toilets would over flow.

@JasonTrew2018 3 жыл бұрын

Here is something that could use a mention, despite not being Amtrak related, she has long been scrapped and that was the Advanced Concept Train 1 (ACT 1) last spotted at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga where it met the scrappers torch

@henrybrightonmusicuploads 3 жыл бұрын

Fun Fact: Although the P1234A5 horn was widely used on the turbotrains, maney ended up with different horns too. There are photos of them with Leslie RS5T’s and SL4T’s even.

@MidnightAspec 3 жыл бұрын

There’s a turboliner set (with phase V paint scheme) laid up about 10 minutes from my house. Took some pics the other day.

@A_Lazy_dude 3 жыл бұрын

its here!

@IcyNylon 3 жыл бұрын

" The sets were numbered 58 to *69* " nice

@CDdogz1992 3 жыл бұрын

I was hoping you would remake this video! Amazing btw I love your modern editing and commentary style

@nascar6373 3 жыл бұрын

Nice remake. This is such a cool train. I also enjoyed the love live clips added in.

@lindavainomae3489 3 жыл бұрын

Great video and really informative....evoked the era well too. Thanks.

@NERJ607 3 жыл бұрын

You should remake all the EOA thumbnails to the modern one you use for the new ones! great vid lmao I just realized you are remaking them completely so nvm

@YukariAkiyamaTanks 3 жыл бұрын

Great work as always

@MetraEmdF40PH 3 жыл бұрын

Finally! We always love new remade videos!

@nathancorcoran5347 Жыл бұрын

It’s really cool.

@aidanwewilin 2 жыл бұрын

Kind of a shame these got retired and cut up, i think i would’ve enjoyed riding these instead of the old amfleet cars my whole life lol

@alexclement7221 3 жыл бұрын

I rode the RTL's in upstate NY several times in the 80's, and always hated them. First of all, the ride was much worse than the Amfleet cars, and the seats were not as comfortable. The large windows were plastic, so after being in service for years, they were quite scratched and difficult to see out of. That was actually probably a good thing, because when you met a freight going the other way on the Water Level Route, it would scare the crap out of you! Sound deadening was much better on the Amfleet cars. Also, the RTL's often stunk of jet fuel, especially when in the tunnels under Grand Central.

@trainglen22 11 ай бұрын

It was a sad day when the Turboliners replaced the Delaware and Hudson train sets .

@alexandermathar7780 7 ай бұрын

In Europe, most of the Turbomeca- Voith units from the old Turbotrains are now used for tractor pulling.

@chief1b 3 жыл бұрын

Great vid. Loved seeing that old footage. As a kid living in Maryland I did not ever see the Turboliner but I sure did see the adds. Ok I am over it now. Thanks.

@jaxeattlebay9576 3 жыл бұрын

I saw a turboliner RTL on a NJ transit train from Trenton and back

@ryguy2408 3 жыл бұрын

I love Engines of Amtrak thanks for making this

@Tom8201 Жыл бұрын

Hopefully one of the Turboliners gets preserved.

@GP30_Foamer Жыл бұрын

It’s a real shame that the last Amtrak RTG was scrapped this month. At least one of the French RTG’s is still around

@mychemicalbromance97 10 ай бұрын

are you talking about the half of one that was sitting down in southern indiana for years ? i havent been down there in a while i was curious it was still there

@ParrotGaming123 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine if they would bring them back to service that would be so cool :)

@SantaFe19484 3 жыл бұрын

A train catching on fire in New York on September 11? Boy was that freaky!

@quailking8265 2 жыл бұрын

I know

@xXExtremeGameXx 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, love this series. As a Brit I find these films really interesting

@supermarionathan1426 3 жыл бұрын

Since the Turboliners retired there hasn’t been any new equipment for Amtrak’s Empire Corridor Service with the current equipment being GE P32AC-DMs and Amfleets! Siemens could be building a Dual Mode version of the SC-44 or ALC-42 Charger (I don’t know which Charger it is based off tbh) with MTA Metro North railroad already ordered 27 of them in December 2020 and for NYSDOT to order some Dual Mode Chargers for Amtrak to use them on the Empire Corridor and to replace GE P32AC-DMs and the Amfleets being replaced by Siemens Ventures as that is what’s happening with Amtrak Midwest and Amtrak California but that will have to wait in the future!

@lucrolland7489 3 ай бұрын

I am sorry to point that there is an error about the French RTGs. I am a Canadian who have used them a lot running between Paris and Caen and there were running at 180 km/h (115 mph). These trains were used for many decades and have a great reputation. The same trains were also used between Lyon and Bordeaux and again I travelled on them. I also remember the Montrealer that Amtrack was bringing to Canada in the nineties but never reached its full speed.I remember hearing the hissing sound of the turbine and I immediately taught of the RTG and here it was in Amtrack livery at St-Lambert station. The problem with EDM is that they make locomotive designed for long haul traction of freight where weight is not an issue as you need large pulling force and relatively slow speed to cover the very long distances. Nothing really efficient for passenger transport. Europeans were and are still more advanced on this although Bo,mbardier surely now makes trains much more suitable for passenger service.

@bridgediscovery1011 3 жыл бұрын

You Have The Most Unique Train Channel I've ever seen

@LazerBlock5010 3 жыл бұрын

more LoveLive! girls appearing on your video tho. thanks for remaking the video. glad you didn't include that shrilling horn. i always lower my volume everytime i rewatch your 1st Turboliner video

@planetwisconsin9901 3 жыл бұрын

Nice saw them between Milwaukee and Chicago. Pretty fast.

@Blank53689 Жыл бұрын

Fun Fact: That A Amtrak Turboliner Number 59 Is At A Junkyard In Dugger Indiana Along With A Turboliner Coach For Drivers To Pass Even Railfanners Find It Including Gametrain Productions

@rabbu2540 3 жыл бұрын

This is nice! I’m just got off Amtrak’s Milwaukee, it was cool!

@rozeenajamil 3 жыл бұрын

THIS WAS VERY DELICIOUS THANK YOU

@eastpennrailproductions 3 жыл бұрын

Wow this is way better then your last one lol

@eliyahtherailfanner131 Жыл бұрын

Last RTG Turboliner one was just cut up this weekend into pieces.

@KorraDaTrainBuff Жыл бұрын

Slight correction, the last RTG Turboliner was cut up. The RTL ones on the east are still in storage as far as we know.

@vietnamesesmerf508 5 ай бұрын

A turbo liner caught fire on 9/11/94… you call it coincidence I call it foreshadowing

@WolverineStateRailfan168 3 жыл бұрын

You have earned a new subscriber :)

@YaoboyProd2K15 3 жыл бұрын

A very strange looking trainset now has its remake and its better than the older version, released in 2017.

@susanablas5281 3 жыл бұрын

Very good video remake

@ralphbalfoort2909 3 жыл бұрын

The same thing plagued the Amtrak turbos that did in the UP's turbine-electric units; they use almost as much fuel at idle as they do at full speed. Turbines do not have a low idle speed.

@Mrmonkey19888 3 жыл бұрын

First also Amtrak history is really historical

@RobertHogan-ec8kp 9 ай бұрын

I've never heard of the turboliner I've only heard of the metroliner

@harrisonallen651 3 жыл бұрын

The illustration made the train look like a monorail

@willberestartingthischanne9984 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@manuelalvarado6510 3 жыл бұрын

Rohr, who built Amtrak's RTL Turboliners, also was the builder of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) railway's gen 1 rail car fleet (type A aerodynamic nose cab and type B passenger car) as well as the decommissioned series 1000 rail cars of BART's sister system WMATA MetroRail.

@VirtualRailfanProductions 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like you are a LoveLive Fan with all the clips you use from the Sunshine Series.

@R3C0NPr0X 3 жыл бұрын

YAY THE ENGINES OF AMTRAK IS BACK, I HOPE YOU DO THE ENGINES OF AMTRAK SC 44 CHARGER from Siemens

@ajaytransitproductions 3 жыл бұрын

If there is any chance he is, not right now since they are still pretty new and don't have much history.

@jacobdolman3831 3 жыл бұрын

The remake yay

@ianhudson2193 3 жыл бұрын

Never rode one....remember various bits of sets dumped around Rensillier....... Only ever saw one working when it passed us at Cold Spring working The Storm King.......while we were sat outside the pub...😊

@AmityBlightAndSP4449Fan 3 жыл бұрын

Those Turbolienrs were failures during revenue service, but they’re will still be a part of the history book of Amtrak. Also, one of the 2 Turboliners sets from the New Brunswick Yard in New Brunswick, New Jersey should be donated to the Illinois Railway Museum, The other one at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis and the 3rd one from Cedar Hill, New Haven, Connecticut to the Danbury Railway Museum.

@Pwnz0rServer2009 2 ай бұрын

the pain of almost all the graphics not being centered correctly

@ddthompson42 3 жыл бұрын

So we've been putting bare feet on seats for a while, then. 4:05

@davidmolin8944 3 жыл бұрын

This is pretty cool although you did miss out one part that that I found out, apparently there's an original RTG turbo liner set somewhere in Indiana I believe that's still in its phase three paint scheme yet it's kind of been abandoned although it is in pretty good condition considering what the other ones look like

@thealmightydoge5653 3 жыл бұрын

Order: Amtrak Turbo Gas Turbine Train --> Turboliner ---> Metroliner ---> ICE 1 ---> X2000 ----> Acela ----> Avelia Liberty let me know if I forgot anything!

@daveb1081 11 ай бұрын

GG1s I believe

@CSSBTGaming 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe the UAC Turbotrain can use its own episode too.

@ToddKeck98 3 жыл бұрын

When the Kanan and Setsuna showed up, I felt that.

@joshteshek1155 3 жыл бұрын

I was not expecting this

@joshteshek1155 3 жыл бұрын

It’s better than the original

@railfansbizarreadventure7458 3 жыл бұрын

@@joshteshek1155 it is :)

@marcleslac2413 Жыл бұрын

There are pics of the turboliners in montreal canada on the adirondak.

@jaydesthegtarailmaster1968 3 жыл бұрын

Lesss go another Episode even though it’s a remake

@thechicagorailfan9234 3 жыл бұрын

Any idea on the exact location of the Turboliner maintenance facility in Chicago

@DiscothecaImperialis 7 ай бұрын

7:21 Is that the influences of Galaxy Express 999 or its parody Drifting Express 000 (Both of which are spacegoing express trains, also created by Leiji Matsumoto)

@ItsSnowyAmelia 3 жыл бұрын

9:06 welcome to my local station 😅

@Theguy493 Жыл бұрын

I've seen the new Via rail trainsets. They actually remind me a lot of these. What with the cab car in the back.

@the_earlybirf1170 3 жыл бұрын

Looks like AmtrakGuy365's computer finally started working again.

@ramen6236 3 жыл бұрын

Yaay new episode let's goo

@The8BitNerd 3 жыл бұрын

Why don’t Amtrak just sell the remaining sets off to other railroads who would benefit from it?

@RaisedLetter Жыл бұрын

Looking back on the story of the RTL sets, rather than attempting to rebuild the existing turbo engines, they could have probably succeeded better by converting the existing sets to trailing sets that could be attached to a standard locomotive like the P32. Especially now that the Ethan Allen Express is in need of control cabs. Seems like such a waste of equipment now. Even being so farfetched after the fact, Metroliner's got that type of conversion and the more modern Talgo and Airo sets have that type of cab car system. Just feels like a lack of foresight.

@marcleslac2413 2 жыл бұрын

Ive seen a pic of a rtl turboliner branching off montreal-west on what is now the candiac line, on a adidondrak service

@That_One_Guy_In_A_Band 3 жыл бұрын

Do you plan on doing a video on the LRC? It's something that I find absolutely fascinating. And apparently they were used by Amtrak, despite most people associating them with VIA.

@LegoWormNoah101 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like you missed one part: Later on in their service life, the RTG Turboliners were fitted with a center headlight, as some motorists confused it for an automobile, which I can see happening when it's on street running tracks, even higher possibility at night