The first batch, known as RTG, were built by the French firm ANF and entered service on multiple routes in the Midwestern United States in 1973. The new trains led to ridership increases wherever used, but the fixed consist (set collection of rail vehicles) that made up a Turboliner train proved a detriment as demand outstripped supply.

SNCF Class T 2000 trainsets, [1] also known under their French acronym RTG (Rame à turbine à gaz, i.e., gas turbine trainset), were the second generation of turbine-powered trains in France and saw commercial service from 1972 to 2004.

Six examples of the RTG were built by ANF for Amtrak and were dubbed Turboliners in the United States. These RTG Turboliners were first imported into the United States in 1973 and "impressed with their reliability" [3] and proliferated with further orders from France and license-production in the United States by Rohr. [3]

Les Rames à Turbines à Gaz, connues sous le nom de Turbotrain ou RTG seront ainsi les derniers représentants en France, mis en service commercial après une longue série d'essais et d'investigations sur plusieurs années, pour aboutir à la mise au point de matériels légers exploitant des turbines constituant la deuxième génération de trains de ce ...

2024年9月5日 · In 1973 Amtrak began receiving the first of ultimately six trainsets of the RTG model Turboliner, so named since it had been built by ANF, which equipped the units with the common European coupler design featuring buffers and turnbuckles. The sets came equipped with five cars; two power cars, two coaches, and a basic bar/grill café car.

Conceived just after the delivery of the last ETG , the Gas Turbine Trains (RTG - Rame à Turbine à Gaz) were the second generation of turbotrains delivered to the SNCF. Among the innovations, was a second power car, thus doubling the power of the trains, and hydraulic transmission.

The RTG (abbreviated from the French Rame à Turbine à Gaz, or gas turbine train) model was an Americanized version of the French ANF T 2000 RTG Turbotrain (related to the prototype precursor to the very first TGV trainset, the TGV 001).

La formule de rames propulsées par des turbines à gaz, essayée sur le TGS puis les rames ETG, se révélant au point, un matériel de seconde génération fut rapidement commandé, afin de redynamiser les liaisons grandes lignes transversales.

Amtrak Ram Turbine Gas (RTG-4) 65 and GP7 760 under the ICG's Saint Charles Air Line near 18th Street in Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in September 1979, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built in 1975, this was one of four ANF sets delivered that year to Amtrak.

SNCF Class T 2000 trainsets, also known under their French acronym RTG (Rame à turbine à gaz, i.e., gas turbine trainset), were the second generation of turbine-powered trains in France and saw commercial service from 1972 to 2004.