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    The UAC TurboTrain was an early high-speed, gas turbine train manufactured by United Aircraft that operated in Canada between 1968 and 1982 and in the...
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    commercial services. Among these was the UAC TurboTrain, which was the first (albeit short-lived) tilting train to enter commercial service in 1968 in the...
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    The world record for a conventional wheeled passenger train is held by a modified French TGV high-speed (with standard equipment) code named V150, set...
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    intended for stationary applications, originally developed for the UAC TurboTrain, and now widely used as auxiliary power units on large aircraft, as...
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    British Rail Class 150 UAC TurboTrain power car A walk-through head is a type of gangway connection that is installed in a train set that is intended to...
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  • National and Canadian Pacific. It also received three of the experimental UAC TurboTrain gas-turbine trainsets. Between 1980–1984 Bombardier delivered 31 LRC...
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    under its own power in 2015. List of MLW diesel locomotives Tilting train UAC TurboTrain Acela Express Simmons & Biddle 1997, p. 486 Williams 1985, p. 12...
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    being designed in the 1960s, including the UAC TurboTrain in North America, the British Advanced Passenger Train (APT) and the French TGV 001. By the 1970s...
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    Rail created some early hopes with the UAC TurboTrain, in its Toronto–Montreal route during the 1960s. The TurboTrain was a true HST, achieving speeds as...
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    ordered five seven-car UAC TurboTrain for the Montreal–Toronto service. It planned to operate them in tandem, connecting two trains together into a larger...
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