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Wonderful ex-Sécurité Civile Conair S-2FT Turbo Firecat F-AYFT/T15 departs Fairford after RIAT 2024
Now owned by the Amicale Alençonnaise des Avions Anciens (A3A), she started life as a US Navy Grumman S2F-1 Tracker BuNo 147559
Re-built by Conair with added Turbo-props she was one of a fleet used for Fire-Fighting
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Shooting the PA Transit commuter train outside Pittsburgh on the morning of 7 August 1986, we caught this nice diversion in the form of a westbound Chessie freight, charging up the B&O mainline behind GP40-2 No. 4147 and SD40 No. 7518.
We always referred to Amtraks Turbo Train as "The Worm". Here it is heading East under the Main Street Bridge in Rochester, NY on January 22, 1978. I was driving a Chevy Vega at the time that was only reliable enough to venture up to Rochester. Future adventures to farther away locations became a reality in March 1978 when I bought a new Chevy Pickup Truck.
CN's Toronto - Montreal train #66 speeds along east of Gananoque Junction, formed of a 9-car Turbo set.
Amtrak Turbo northbound on ICG @ Joliet, Il. (July 1975)*
Kodachrome my collection, J. David Ingles photographer.
BMW 2002 Turbo
Das unter der Code BMW E20 entwickelte Modell mit 170 PS maximaler Motorleistung war (noch vor dem Porsche 911 Turbo) das erste in Serie hergestellte deutsche Auto mit Abgasturbolader.
In der Öffentlichkeit wurde der im Herbst 1973, mitten in der ersten Ölkrise, vorgestellte BMW 2002 turbo sofort wegen seines hohen Benzinverbrauchs kritisiert; ebenso wie der auf Wunsch auf dem Frontspoiler in Spiegelschrift angebrachte Schriftzug "turbo 2002", der in der Presse als „Kriegsbemalung“ tituliert wurde.
Von September 1973 bis November 1974 wurden nur 1672 Fahrzeuge hergestellt, die ab Werk lediglich in den BMW-Farben Polaris-metallic und Chamonix (Silber bzw. Weiß) erhältlich waren. In heutiger Kaufkraft und Währung entspricht der bei Produktionsende 1974 verlangte Preis von 20.780 DM aktuell einer Summe von 29.900 Euro.
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The BMW 2002 Turbo was launched at the 1973 Frankfurt Motor Show. This was BMW's first turbocharged production car and the first turbocharged car since General Motors' brief offerings in the early 1960s. It produced 127 kW (170 hp) at 5,800 rpm, (p162) with 240 N·m (180 lb·ft) of torque. The 2002 Turbo used the 2002 tii engine with a KKK turbocharger and a compression ratio of 6.9:1 in order to prevent engine knocking. Kugelfischer mechanical fuel injection was used, with a sliding throttle plate instead of the usual throttle butterfly. The 2002 Turbo was introduced just before the 1973 oil crisis, therefore only 1,672 were built.
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There wasn't all that much interesting at The Motorist this morning, understandably so considering the time of year and weather, but this Macan GTS certainly caught my eye. Finished in a fantastic colour with a very nice body kit and just over 1 month old.
An Amtrak Empire service train departs Beacon on a hot and hazy August morning in 1994.
The RTL Turboliner trainsets were based on the earlier RTG Turboliners which were in turn developed from the French ANF gas-turbine T 2000 RTG "Turbotrain" trainsets.
Built by Rohr Industries, the RTL Turboliners were delivered to Amtrak in 1976-77 for use in upstate New York on the Empire Service (New York-Albany-Buffalo) and Adirondack (New York-Montreal).
They were withdrawn from service shortly after this photo. A few of them remain in storage most likely never to run again.