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LIGHTWEIGHT TRAIN will be built by General Motors this summer. Called Train Y, it will carry 400 passengers at better than 100 m.p.h. in low-slung, luxuriously appointed cars, each with a pantry and rest room at one end, a vestibule with steps for both high and low platforms at the other. Cost, excluding engine...
DREAM CAR from this year's General Motors Motorama is moving to the assembly line. Cadillac's "Eldorado Brougham," a low-slung, four-door hardtop, will soon go into production to compete with Rolls-Royce. Price...
Four big U.S. railroads last week placed orders for radically new passenger cars in an effort to recapture lost passenger business and put it on a paying basis. ¶The Pennsylvania ordered a low-slung, lightweight stainless-steel train from the Budd Co. that will cost "somewhat over $1,000,000" and will have a capacity of 574 passengers. A separate power car will provide heat, light, and airconditioning for the seven tubular coaches. With coaches 2 ft. lower than present models, the train will take curves faster, cut running time between Washington and New York by 15%. Delivery: early...
...Santa Fe, going against the trend to low-slung equipment, ordered from Budd 47 "Hi-Level" passenger cars for its transcontinental El Capitan. The road, which has been experimenting with two of the cars for a year, is so pleased with the results that El Capitan will be completely equipped with them by mid-1956. Included in the total: 35 all-chair cars, seating 67 passengers apiece, six diners, six dome lounge cars. While the height (15 ft. 6 in.) will cut speed on the bends, Santa Fe feels that on long-distance runs that drawback is offset by less...
LIGHTWEIGHT TRAIN, which all railroads are talking about, will be ordered by the Pennsylvania. Costing about $1,000,000, it will be a Talgo-type express (TIME, April 18, 1949) made up of low-slung, tubular cars holding 600 passengers...