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Rob said:
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By the 1950's, passenger revenues on America's railroads had long since passed their heyday. Automobiles were fast becoming an affordable option for the modern traveller, and flight was also steadily gaining in popularity.

If railroad passenger services were to survive, operators realised they would need to change their thinking and find a more cost effective approach.

Manufacturers of railroad equipment were also taking note of the changing age and sought to provide solutions for their valuable customers. How would rail travel survive in the future and what shape would tomorrow's trains take?

Can you guess what the mystery train is?

Stay tuned!

~R~
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My guess is the up big boy!:confused:
 
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Welcome to the forums anyway.

Shane
 
In reading the words by Rob, I am inclined to think this:

EMD E-units were a line of passenger train diesel locomotives built by the General Motors EMD division and its predecessor the Electro-Motive Corporation (EMC). Final assembly for all E-units was in La Grange, IL. Production ran from May, 1937, to December, 1963. The name E-units refers to the model numbers given to each successive type, which all began with E. The E originally stood for eighteen hundred horsepower (1300 kW), the power output of the earliest model, but the letter was kept for later models of far higher power ratings.


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I'm guessing the Budliner. It was a great idea but could not compete with limited access free highways and 20 cent a gallon gas. We'll see good rail service when gas goes to $7.50 a gallon - coming soon to a gas station near YOU!
 
panamfan said:
I'm guessing the Budliner. It was a great idea but could not compete with limited access free highways and 20 cent a gallon gas. We'll see good rail service when gas goes to $7.50 a gallon - coming soon to a gas station near YOU!
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Did you perhaps mean a Buddliner, or, a foam wrap to keep a can of Bud (Budweiser now owned by InBev in Belgium) cool?:confused:

Also looks like you are proposing subsidizing rail service (think Amtrak) and not subsidizing fuel (gas/petrol) similar to that in the in other countries?:o

History shows that the USA Interstate Highway system was not started until 1956.

Just wondering,
 
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For everyone guessing steam based on the image, I honestly think it's a red-herring. The image is literally the splash screen of the Y6b from TS12 with the locomotive blacked out and a ?. It is very likely just a 'can you guess' image, rather than a clue itself.

The chances of them releasing another Y6b seem slim at best, and they would likely lose all TS12 owners as customers of such a payware since the built-in TS12 Y6b is very very good to start with.

I would instead concentrate on the words used for hints.
 
Which Loco

I was only seven years at the time,all I can think of around that time was the double tendered Flying Scotsman out of Toronto. I know on loan to Canada for many months.
 
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cascaderailroad said:
Several hundered passenger trains passed through Altoona during WWII
Now there are only 2 trains per day (one east, the other west) through Altoona.
Shamtrak died, long ago, and passenger trains in the US are doomed.
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Where I live, passenger trains will never be doomed. I live on Long Island, and we have only 700mi of RoW, yet we are the BUSIEST commuter railroad in North America. :)
 
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Where I live, passenger trains will never be doomed. I live on Long Island, and we have only 700mi of RoW, yet we are the BUSIEST commuter railroad in North America. :)
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Would that have something to do with 20 million people living in the Greater New York area?

Just wondering,
 
Here is my guess.

1. I think the picture is a red herring, so the train could have operated anywhere, not necessarily in Western mountains.
2. The text starts with a sentence about passenger traffic declining throughout the 1950s, but that doesn't mean the train was in service then, so I think steam is out.
3. It talks about an innovative approach and survival of rail travel in the future, which implies it is a passenger train, not just a locomotive.
4. The text also implies this was a private venture because it speaks of equipment manufacturers supporting their valued customers -plural, not Amtrek. BTW, try the Amtrek Web site. It's a riot.

So, how about Autotrain. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Train Innovative idea and equipment, or use of it, for 1971, and an effort to win back passenger traffic by letting people bring their cars with them.

Bernie
 
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We don't have a lot of information to go on, so this all a big guess at this time.

This could be an eastern road, perhaps the New York Central. 20th Century Limited fully equipped streamliner?

How about N&W 611, or perhaps another Pennsy such as the Broadway Limited.

For the western roads, it could be the CB&Q, Great Northern, Rock Island, even the Rio Grande. These companies all had their flavor of streamliners such as the Rocket, and the Overland Express.

The picture is definitely a blanked out Y6b on the TS12 box cover!

John
 
Rob said:
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By the 1950's, passenger revenues on America's railroads had long since passed their heyday. Automobiles were fast becoming an affordable option for the modern traveller, and flight was also steadily gaining in popularity.

If railroad passenger services were to survive, operators realised they would need to change their thinking and find a more cost effective approach.

Manufacturers of railroad equipment were also taking note of the changing age and sought to provide solutions for their valuable customers. How would rail travel survive in the future and what shape would tomorrow's trains take?

Can you guess what the mystery train is?

Stay tuned!

~R~
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Maybe a UPRR Big Boy
 
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