From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!wlk Newsgroups: net.railroad Title: turbo Article-I.D.: zeppo.320 Posted: Wed Sep 22 09:02:43 1982 Received: Thu Sep 23 04:24:01 1982 Recently, as I was driving home through Madison, NJ, I listened to the sound of the "diesel" engine that was pulling the train out of the Madison station. The train was the 4:40 out of Hoboken, I believe (since it was PM, the engine was pulling rather than pushing). I noticed that the engine made a whining noise rather than the chugging that I normally hear. Are they using turbines these days? The weekend trains still chug, so maybe they are running a mixture of whiners and chuggers. Of course, the non-chugging, non-whining, antique brown (usually) trolleys still carry the bulk of the commuters and their WSJ's. Can anyone set me straight?