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  28. I rode on that Aerotrain on the Pennsylvania Railroad Philadelphia-Pittsburgh route in 1956, the route which was discussed in this video. It was particularly exciting to ride it around Horseshoe Curve. The train was a really big deal at the time and captured a lot of headlines and interest. They had it for testing on the New York Central for a brief time but I don't believe it ever saw any scheduled service on that road. There was a lot of interest in experimental trains during the 50's and 60's as railroads were trying to find innovative ways of competing with cars and airlines. The New York Central ran a different (single unit multi car) train (locomotive by Baldwin, cars by Pullman) called the "Xplorer" between Cleveland and Cincinnati from 1956-57 but which also failed. There was also consideration during that time of a US version of the Spanish "Talgo" train (1950's version) which had articulated cars capable of tilting around curves, as well as many other technologically advanced features for the time (and even now). It also never made it into US service. Finally, there was the United Aircraft Turbo train which also had tilt capability as well as a gas turbine engine. Amtrak actually ran that in service for a few years and I rode it between Boston and New York. The neat thing about that train was that it had cabs on both ends with raised passenger seating in each cab, like in dome cars. You could actually sit up high in passenger seats on raised areas of the cab cars along with the engineer and look out forward at the track ahead. You could also look backward along the top of the rest of the train (I did both). If you are interested, you can find information on any of those trains by doing an internet search on their names.
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