Hello from #Toronto 🇨🇦 Union Station: an early morning departure on #VIArail train #60 for #Montréal today. According to my timetable booklet from the 1970s, a high-speed #Turbotrain worked #60, the first eastbound “Corridor” morning service of the day, back then. Travelling times of the “Turbos” remain unmatched until today.

#Caen #turbotrain #patrimoineferroviaire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZC9RABvyNI

May 2002 at #Bordeaux 🇫🇷: an #SNCF #RTG #Turbotrain awaits departure from the outermost platform. I could imagine they weren’t allowed under the station roof: their helicopter-type gas turbines developed an incredible (not to say deafening) sound when gearing up.
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A first generation #TGV and the #RTG #Turbotrain: the motor cars of two #SNCF 🇫🇷 signature trainsets designed in the 1970s on display, “face to face” at the French Railway museum “Cité du Train” in #Mulhouse.

A slide of poor quality but rich in emotions: my only picture featuring an un-refurbished (i.e. still round-nosed) #SNCF 🇫🇷 class X2720 #RGP1 unit and an #ETG class #T1000 #Turbotrain, two French railway design classics.
Photo taken at #Chambéry in August 1985.
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