At dusk, United Aircraft TurboTrain set 52-53 running as Penn Central train 3002 departs from New Haven on its first revenue run between New York and Boston, as an FL9-powered conventional train occupies the adjoining track. On this day the Turbo represented the future of high speed passenger service on the Shore Line, but things would turn out differently.

Photographed by Tom Nelligan, April 8, 1969.
Added to the photo archive by Tom Nelligan, March 16, 2018.
Railroad: Penn Central.

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