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...exhibition run, General Motors' 400-passenger Aerotrain streaked over the Pennsylvania Railroad from Washington to Philadelphia in two hours-as fast as the crack Congressional Limited. The same day, another Aerotrain rolled out of Chicago over the tracks of the New York Central and highballed 284 miles to Detroit in four hours, an hour better than the fastest passenger express. Even more impressive than its speed is the Aerotrain's low operating cost. For the Chicago-Detroit run, fuel cost only $18, about one-fourth the costs of a conventional^ train. G.M. engineers estimate that the Aerotrain...
...plush-lined Cadillac of the rails, the Aerotrain was designed more like a stripped-down Chevvy. The 40-passenger coach weighs only 16 tons, v. 65 tons for an 80-passenger conventional coach. Construction costs were kept down by using G.M. components already in production, e.g., coach side panels and air bellows suspension were lifted from the bus G.M. makes for Greyhound. Result: the entire ten-coach train and engine can be mass-produced for an estimated $600,000, v. $1,700,000 for a conventional train...
...AEROTRAIN will be delivered to the New York Central and Pennsylvania railroads early next month. Both railroads will make exhibition runs of the low-slung, lightweight, 100-m.p.h. Aerotrains for three weeks, then return them to G.M. for tune-ups. On May 1 the 400-passenger, $600,000 trains will go into service...
...water in the world's biggest dump truck (50 tons), and the public will tramp around a host of diesel-propelled attractions ranging from an 85-ton atomic cannon to a 63-ft. shrimp boat. The star of the show: G.M.'s new, 10-car, 400-passenger Aerotrain, which is twice as light and less than half as expensive as conventional passenger cars. To make the diesel debut complete, the company has built a grandstand where 7,000 spectators can watch an hour-long musical (title: "More Power to You"), featuring a top-hatted elephant in a test...