briansilvermustang posted:
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Fairbanks Morse 'John Quincy Adams' locomotive (class P-12-42). Pulled a set of Talgo cars of Spanish design (thinking that they were built on contract by ACF in the US).Boston and Maine tried a set as the 'Speed Merchant.'.
One of several ventures the NH made into lightweight trains in order to try and suppress their growing deficits from passenger service. Joined by the 'Train X' (NH Train name Daniel Webster) from Baldwin, and the Roger Williams (Budd car set with a bulldog nose). Only one that survived that era were the Budd cars, Amtrak ran them for quite a few years.
The GM Aerotrain was another entry into the lightweight train craze. As with the Talgo cars, they ran rough and literatlly bounced teh passengers out of their seats on rough track. The Rock Islan kept some of the Aerotrains, just to punish their commuters.
