17 Facts About Talgo

Talgo is a Spanish manufacturer of intercity, standard, and high-speed passenger trains.

In March 2007 Talgo sold its Finnish rolling stock manufacturing subsidiary Talgo Oy to its local management and other Finnish investors.

Talgo spends 10 to 12 percent of revenues on research and development, but the main revenue source is the Spanish railway operator Renfe.

Talgo made an initial public offering on the Bolsa de Madrid in May 2015.

In July 2015, Talgo stated its intention to ship a Series 9 train to India at its own cost as a demonstration on the Mumbai-Delhi rail route.

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Talgo trains are best known for their unconventional articulated railway passenger cars that use in-between carriage bogies that Talgo patented in 1941, similar to the earlier Jacobs bogie.

Talgo II carried most of the Jet Rocket train's passengers between Chicago and Peoria, Illinois, after entering service on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad in 1956.

Talgo IIs were built for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad for its "John Quincy Adams" train from New York City to Boston, Massachusetts, and the Boston and Maine Railroad for its "Speed Merchant" train, running between Boston, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine.

Talgo Pendular, introduced in 1980, created the "natural tilting" train, using a passive system that tilts the carriages with no need for electronic sensors or hydraulic equipment.

In 1988, a Talgo Pendular was used on trials for Amtrak on the Boston-New York corridor in the United States and on Deutsche Bahn lines in Germany.

Talgo made an agreement in 2009 to build a manufacturing facility in Wisconsin which would initially supply two 14-car trainsets for the Amtrak Hiawatha Service until the project was cancelled.

Talgo expressed hope the plant would later be used to build trains for other U S rail projects.

Talgo 250 is a dual voltage electric train equipped with variable gauge axles.

Talgo 250 Hybrid is a dual-voltage dual-power train equipped with variable gauge axles.

Talgo 350 entered service as the Renfe AVE Class 102 marking the company's entry into the high-speed train manufacturing market.

Talgo XXI is a project for a high-speed diesel-powered train, that operates in push-pull with one or two power cars and Talgo VII intermediate cars.

Talgo has developed recently a train known as "AVRIL", intended for speeds of 380 kilometres per hour .