The UAC TurboTrain was an early high-speed, gas turbine train manufactured by United Aircraft that operated in Canada between 1968 and 1982 and in the...
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commercial services. Among these was the UAC TurboTrain, which was the first (albeit short-lived) tilting train to enter commercial service in 1968 in the...
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intended for stationary applications, originally developed for the UAC TurboTrain, and now widely used as auxiliary power units on large aircraft, as...
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British Rail Class 150 UAC TurboTrain power car A walk-through head is a type of gangway connection that is installed in a train set that is intended to...
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Railway speed record (redirect from Fastest train)
The world record for a conventional wheeled passenger train is held by a modified French TGV high-speed (with standard equipment) code named V150, set...
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being designed in the 1960s, including the UAC TurboTrain in North America, the British Advanced Passenger Train (APT) and the French TGV 001. By the 1970s...
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National and Canadian Pacific. It also received three of the experimental UAC TurboTrain gas-turbine trainsets. Between 1980–1984 Bombardier delivered 31 LRC...
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High-speed rail in Canada (section Bombardier JetTrain)
Rail created some early hopes with the UAC TurboTrain, in its Toronto–Montreal route during the 1960s. The TurboTrain was a true HST, achieving speeds as...
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under its own power in 2015. List of MLW diesel locomotives Tilting train UAC TurboTrain Acela Express Simmons & Biddle 1997, p. 486 Williams 1985, p. 12...
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Aircraft: design and development of a hybrid VTOL/Conventional design UAC TurboTrain (1968) Sikorsky ASPB Assault Support Patrol Boat (1969) H-34 Choctaw...
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of semi-experimental designs of the 1970s made use of it, like the UAC TurboTrain, the concept was not widely used. In 1964, a number of BR's formerly-dispersed...
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Canadian National Railway (section Turbo)
ordered five seven-car UAC TurboTrain for the Montreal–Toronto service. It planned to operate them in tandem, connecting two trains together into a larger...
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when a UAC TurboTrain operated by Via Rail on westbound service from Montréal to Toronto caught fire after developing an oil leak. The train was quickly...
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New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (redirect from Puritan (train))
equipment on the train John Quincy Adams. An audacious experiment was the UAC TurboTrain, which with passive tilt, turbine engines and light weight attempted...
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periodically attached to the end of a diesel or electric revenue-running train or is hauled by a locomotive only. The car previously had a special pantograph...
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Line after 9 years of negotiations and ICC hearings. August 1, 1967: UAC TurboTrain maiden voyage. December 3, 1967: 20th Century Limited makes last run...
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Aardvark powered by the Pratt & Whitney TF30. UAC acquired Chesapeake and Ohio Railway designed UAC TurboTrain to compete in the DOT's Northeast Corridor...
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snack-bar coach. On February 7, 1972, Amtrak transferred one of its two UAC TurboTrain trainsets, then on the Turboservice between New York City and Boston...
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Acela Express (trainset) (category Train-related introductions in 2000)
highest speed by a train in the US, which is 170.8 mph (274.9 km/h), achieved in a test run by the U.S./Canada-built UAC TurboTrain on December 20, 1967...
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Streamliner (redirect from Streamliner train)
custom streamliner concept was revived again in the 1960s with the UAC TurboTrain. These articulated trainsets used gas turbine engines instead of reciprocating...
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Baldwin RP-210 (category North American streamliner trains)
involved the Jones Tours train sets in evaluation tests for the development of his UAC TurboTrain during the mid-1960s. Unlike the Train-X coaches, the gas-turbine-powered...
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Hovertrain (category High-speed trains)
funds to develop a series of high-speed trains. In addition to funding development of the successful UAC TurboTrain and more conventional projects, the FRA...
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Railway coupling (redirect from Train coupling)
developed for that market. The first of these were fitted in 1968 to the UAC TurboTrain with 228 electrical contacts and the Budd Metropolitan EMU with 138...
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snow, closing the city for several days.[2] August 1: maiden voyage of UAC TurboTrain. 1968: February 7: Mickelberry Sausage Company plant explosion kills...
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Acela (category High-speed trains of the United States)
highest speed by a train in the US, which is 170.8 mph (274.9 km/h), achieved in a test run by the U.S./Canada-built UAC TurboTrain on December 20, 1967...
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rail in Canada Maglev train proposals in the United States Rail transportation in the United States Turboliner UAC TurboTrain "The Development of High...
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2013. Bateman, Chris (9 December 2015). "Remembering the ill-fated CN Turbo train". Spacing Magazine. Retrieved 30 May 2021. "1981, March 19 - Five volunteer...
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cars and rail diesel cars, and services such as Rapido and the UAC TurboTrain trains temporarily increased numbers of passengers, reversing previous...
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be acquitted. United Aircraft Corporation gave the first test to the UAC TurboTrain, "powered by gas turbine engines similar to those used in jet aircraft"...
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