Skip to content. | Skip to navigation

Personal tools
Sections
Search the Archives
Browse the Archives

Route Name

Follow Amtrak Online
 
Home > Archives

Archives

You searched for turboliner. Return to the full archives.

Check back often! We're constantly updating the archives to create a robust resource, adding new items regularly.

RTG Turboliner illustration, 1970s.

Pen and ink illustration depicting a RTG Turboliner passing through the countryside; image likely dates to the late 1970s.

Turbo Service flyer, 1973.

Color printed paper flyer highlighting the introduction of Turboliner trains on the Chicago-Springfield-St. Louis route on October 1, 1973. Flyer includes sample fares and schedule.

X2000 with RTL Turboliners at Washington Union Station, 1992.

Color film slide showing the X2000 demonstration train at Washington Union Station during its testing period in November, 1992.

Detroit-Chicago Turboliner Service brochure, 1975.

Multicolor printed paper brochure advertising the introduction of Turboliner equipment on the Detroit-Chicago route in April, 1975. Brochure includes schedules, sample fares and descriptions of towns along the route. "There's a bright new look in everything--from the beautiful new carpeting to the ultra-comfortable upholstered reclining seats, to the fold down dining trays with delicious hot meals available..." From the W. Mike Weber Collection.

Amtrak NEWS, May 15, 1977.

Amtrak NEWS. Vol. 4, No. 9 (May 15, 1977): 8. Print. Includes black and white photographs. From the Amtrak Corporate Collection.

Amtrak NEWS was a bi-monthly newsletter published for Amtrak employees. Feature articles in this issue focus on the discontinuation of the Mountaineer (Norfolk-Cincinnati-Chicago), creation of the Hilltopper (Washington-Roanoake-Tri-State Station) and conclusion of a special transcontinental steam excursion train that ran from Birmingham, Ala. to Portland, Ore.

Empire State Express emerging from Cold Spring Tunnel, 1970s.

Black and white photograph showing the Empire State Express (New York-Niagara Falls) emerging from the south portal of the Cold Spring Tunnel, located along the Hudson River north of the town of Cold Spring. Photograph dates to 1979 or later.

"Train of the Future" Turboliner poster, 1977.

Multicolor printed paper poster released in February 1977 to tout the new RTL Turboliners ordered for use in New York state.

Turboliner at Detroit Amtrak Family Days, 1980.

Black and white photograph from the August 1980 issue of Amtrak NEWS.

Equipment display at Detroit Amtrak Family Days, 1980.

Black and white photograph from the August 1980 issue of Amtrak NEWS.

Inaugural Lake Cities arrives in Detroit, 1980.

Black and white photograph from the August 1980 issue of Amtrak NEWS.