The contract for four new 700T trainsets signed between THSRC and Kawasaki consortium on May 2012 in Tokyo, Japan, saw the first (TR 31) and second (TR 32) trainsets already in Taiwan on 23 December 2012 and 21 January 2013; the third and fourth trainsets will be in Taiwan in 2014 and 2015.
New gas turbine trainsets could change that perception and generate favorable publicity.
After the settlement of legal issues New York sold the remaining trainsets for scrap in 2012.
Amfleet coaches and new conventional diesels replaced both of the Turboliner trainsets in 1975.
Initially the two trainsets were mostly confined to the New York Albany shuttle, with a single round-trip each on Saturday and Sunday to Buffalo.
The agreement between Amtrak and New York provided that New York would take ownership of the rebuilt trainsets once Amtrak had "fully accepted" them for regular revenue service.
In 1998, New York State initiated a $185 million program in partnership with Amtrak to increase the speeds of the Empire Service to 125 mph by reconstructing all seven gas-turbine Turboliner trainsets, originally built in 1976 1977, to the new RTL-III specification.
Amtrak replaced one of the trainsets with a conventional locomotive hauling then-new Amfleet coaches in 1976; Turboliner service ended altogether by 1981 as more Amfleet equipment became available.
All seven trainsets were renumbered in 2001 to prevent duplicate numbers with the new GE P42DCs and were painted in new Acela-style livery.
