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Posted by Atomsk on Mon Oct 9 15:19:54 2006, in response to Re: (PHOTOS) Amtrak Turboliners in storage, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Oct 9 14:37:23 2006. Then what about the Vertol LRVs that Boston and San Francisco bought in the '70s?I believe you have Vertol confused with VTOL. Vertol is the name of a company, orignally known as Piasecki, that built helicopters. Boeing bought them out in 1960, and they became the Boeing-Vertol division. In the mid '70s, the helicopter business wasn't paying well, so they went into the trolley car business. The subesquent story shall live in infamy. The Vertol LRVs were the Rockwell trucks of the MBTA. However, Vertol did not produce the Turbotrain. That was Vertol's main rival, Sikorsky. Actually, the Turbotrain project came from Sikorksy's parent company, known at the time as "United Aircraft". Soon after this project, to shift the corporations image to a wider field than aviation, they changed their name to "United Technologies". |
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