THE LAST OF THE MCGINNIS EXPERIMENTS LIVES ON.

Investment banker and self-styled railroad reformer Patrick McGinnis is notorious in ferroequinology circles for his attempts to save first the New Haven and then the Boston and Maine railroads by destroying them.  Like many other situations where good intentions go awry, those railroads were in trouble, with the agricultural and industrial base of New England off respectively to more fertile lands and more friendly business climates; and perhaps selling off the real estate for parking lots, or, most notoriously, parcels of land that would have permitted the Shore Line to be straightened out through Connecticut to the Turnpike Authority.  But fixing the passenger train problem by going to lighter passenger trains with all the ride qualities of a rickety roller coaster?

The Spanish-inspired Talgos and Pullman's Train X (long before anyone even conceived Elon Musk) went for scrap long ago, or perhaps some of the Talgo carriages soldier on in Latin America?  Budd also got in on the action with modified Rail Diesel Cars fitted with diesel noses, as well as with third-rail gear to be able to run into Grand Central Terminal.  Because those were modified Budd Cars, they could run in formations with standard Budd Cars, and Amtrak got hold of the two cars with diesel noses and assigned them to the New Haven - Springfield connecting trains, such as this formation in New Haven on 24 March 1978.

The cars were quirky enough to attract the attention of preservationists, and they're still around, and perhaps they will return to service in the Berkshires.  For now, the nose cars, as well as a middle unit that avoided the scrapper (those were peripatetic, one of them for a while running on former Baltimore and Ohio suburban lines out of the Federal Capital) are on static display in Lenox.

Standard issue Rail Diesel Cars are in preservation service out of Adams.  As far as I know, special trains to Tanglewood or to Alice's Restaurant are not timetabled.