page_title: Talgo
section_title: Talgo Pendular
hierarchical_section_title: Talgo / Trains / Talgo Pendular
caption_attribution_description: One of a series of Oregon Talgo (Amtrak Cascades) trainset photos.
context_page_description: Talgo, S.A. is a Spanish manufacturer of intercity, standard, and high speed passenger trains.
  The word Talgo is also used by the rail operator RENFE for a type of inter-city rail service.
context_section_description: The Talgo Pendular (Talgo IV and Talgo V, also VI & Talgo 200 or 6th generation), 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. The wheels are mounted on monoaxles between the carriages, and sitting on top of the monoaxles are suspension columns. The carriages are attached to the top of the suspension columns and swing outwards as the train goes through a curve.
  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. Trial commercial services with Talgo cars in the US commenced in 1994 between Seattle and Portland, and from 1998 different trains have been used on the Amtrak Cascades services from Vancouver, British Columbia south to Seattle, Washington, continuing south via Portland, Oregon to Eugene, Oregon. Five Talgo IV trains were in use in Argentina on the General Roca Railway, however they have since been replaced by CRRC Dalian rolling stock and their future is uncertain as of 2015.
  Talgo 200 series trains are also in use in Kazakhstan for the overnight train Almaty–Astana.
caption: Amtrak Cascades Talgo Pendular cars
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