Amtrak Turboliner Ride SDY-ALB in 1984 

an HO scale one is being made! rapidotrains.com/products/ho-scale/diesel-locomotives/ho-scale-rohr-turboliner

I rode them when I made occasional business trips between Albany and NYC. When the worked (the operative thought here), they were a nice ride. Had they been around today with track speeds in excess of 100 mph, they would have provided a great high speed trip. It's unfortunate that the best AMTRAK can offer now is some rehabbed AMFLEET 1 Coaches pulled by "yesterday's-news" diesel engines. The Empire Service could do better.

@@cats0182 some of those poor dual mode diesel engines used on the Empire Service look way worse for wear then the Turboliner did in this video, that's for sure! The repainted ones in the "Retro/Heritage" Phase III scheme I must say do WONDERS for the looks of the locomotives. The Amfleets still continue to impress me with their longevity and the rehab does make them look fairly modern, but I agree its time for some new blood injected into the Amtrak system as a whole...other then a few new Viewliners here and there....which are based on a design that is basically as old as this video is.

No it was Phase I, but that train has Amfleet I cars in Phase I, II and III. The first car was Phase II.

Isnt the Cafe in phase III as well as the engine? Looked like engine is phase III and last coach is phase I because it has the arrow herald.