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Viewing Album:  Amtrak Rohr Turboliners in storage @ Super Steel - Glenville Industrial Park; Schenectady, NY
 
By:Philip M. Goldstein
Dates:10/10/2010 - 10/10/2010
Album Info:On my way from the Mohawk River Bridge at Rotterdam Junction to Fullers Flyover, I was on Route 5 passing an industrial park. I just happened to look left and saw a crowd of Turboliners.. so.. I hit the brakes hard and made the turn! Ironically, I saw these very Turboliners in action about 15 years ago at Poughkeepsie Station. The following info comes from Wikipedia: The Turboliners are gas turbine trainsets built by Rohr. The trains were powered by gas turbine engines and ran on diesel fuel. Some were equipped with third rail shoes to enable entry to Grand Central Terminal and New York Penn Station. Turboliner service originally started in the 1970s as an effort by Amtrak to update its fleet with faster, more modern vehicles. Since then, the trainsets have undergone several rebuilds with the latest in 2000. The RTL and RTL-II sets were sent to Super Steel in Schenectady, NY in the summer of 2000 for rebuilding into the newest generation, the RTL-III. The train sets were all renumbered in 2001 to prevent duplicate numbers with the newly arriving P-42s and were painted in new Acela-style livery. A prototype was tested on the night of February 15, 2003, reaching 125 mph. Two of these train sets were rebuilt and entered revenue service in April 2003, while a third rebuilt set was sent to Albany in September of the same year but never entered service. As of September 22, 2004, all three RTL-III trainsets were in storage in Bear, DE; due to problems with the air conditioning system and possibly other systems. Two rebuilt RTL III Turboliner trainsets sit at the Albany Diesel Shops following their brief return to service in 2003. These units feature motors taken from the old Metroliner cars to propel the trains into and out of New York's Penn Station using electricity instead of diesel fuel. Unrebuilt RTL II power cars and coaches sit wrapped in plastic behind the Super Steel plant in 2006. The original RTL-III program envisioned seven five-car t
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AMTK 2131
Title:  AMTK 2131
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Photo Date:  10/10/2010  Upload Date: 6/25/2013 9:40:08 PM
Location:  Schenectady, NY
Author:  Philip M. Goldstein
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Locomotives:  AMTK 2131(Turboliner)
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AMTK 2131
Title:  AMTK 2131
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Photo Date:  10/10/2010  Upload Date: 6/25/2013 9:40:11 PM
Location:  Schenectady, NY
Author:  Philip M. Goldstein
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Locomotives:  AMTK 2131(Turboliner)
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AMTK 2139 & sister
Title:  AMTK 2139 & sister
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Photo Date:  10/10/2010  Upload Date: 6/25/2013 9:40:13 PM
Location:  Schenectady, NY
Author:  Philip M. Goldstein
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Locomotives:  AMTK 2139(Turboliner)
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A turboliner set all wrapped up and no place to go
Title:  A turboliner set all wrapped up and no place to go
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Photo Date:  10/10/2010  Upload Date: 6/25/2013 9:40:14 PM
Location:  Schenectady, NY
Author:  Philip M. Goldstein
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AMTK 2139 - 2131
Title:  AMTK 2139 - 2131
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Photo Date:  10/10/2010  Upload Date: 6/25/2013 9:40:16 PM
Location:  Schenectady, NY
Author:  Philip M. Goldstein
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Locomotives:  AMTK 2139(Turboliner) AMTK 2131(Turboliner)
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AMTK 2139
Title:  AMTK 2139
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Photo Date:  10/10/2010  Upload Date: 6/25/2013 9:40:17 PM
Location:  Schenectady, NY
Author:  Philip M. Goldstein
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Locomotives:  AMTK 2139(Turboliner)
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AMTK 2139
Title:  AMTK 2139
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Photo Date:  10/10/2010  Upload Date: 6/25/2013 9:40:18 PM
Location:  Schenectady, NY
Author:  Philip M. Goldstein
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Locomotives:  AMTK 2139(Turboliner)
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