The ''John Quincy Adams'' was a named train of the

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, between New York, New York and Boston, Massachusetts. The ''John Quincy Adams'' was an attempt by the New Haven to modernize rail travel and lure people out of their cars. The train was built by

American Car and Foundry ACF Industries, originally the American Car and Foundry Company (abbreviated as ACF), is an American manufacturer of railroad rolling stock. One of its subsidiaries was once (1925–54) a manufacturer of motor coaches and trolley coaches und ...

to a lightweight

Talgo Talgo (officially Patentes Talgo, SAU) is a Spanish manufacturer of intercity, standard, and high-speed passenger trains. Corporate history TALGO, an abbreviation of Tren Articulado Ligero Goicoechea Oriol (English: ''Lightweight articulated tr ...

design, and was powered by two

Fairbanks-Morse Fairbanks, Morse and Company was an American manufacturing company in the late 19th and early 20th century. Originally a weighing scale manufacturer, it later diversified into pumps, engines, windmills, coffee grinders, radios, farm tractors, fee ...

P-12-42

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s, one at each end of the train, connected by multiple unit control. The train consisted of five sections, each made up of three short cars

articulated An articulated vehicle is a vehicle which has a permanent or semi-permanent pivot joint in its construction, allowing it to turn more sharply. There are many kinds, from heavy equipment to buses, trams and trains. Steam locomotives were sometim ...

together. The center car of each section had two axles (one at each end), with the remaining cars having a single axle each, being supported by adjacent cars at the end opposite the axle. The ride was rough, as with most of the other lightweight trains of the period, and the train was not a success. The train was sold in 1962 to the

Ferrocarril de Langreo Ferrocarril de Langreo or FC de Langreo (FCL) was a Spanish railway company which operated a line, in the Autonomous Community of Asturias, in northern Spain. It was the third train line constructed in Spain and was built during the 1850s. Hi ...

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, where it was used until 1983. The locomotives remained unused after that sale of the train, and were scrapped in 1971.https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/penney_vanderbilt/Trains/Alpert.html&date=2009-10-26+00:25:04

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* Talgo North American streamliner trains Passenger trains of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Named passenger trains of the United States Articulated passenger trains Fairbanks-Morse {{US-train-stub

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