Amloco (GE Genesis)

One of the postcards on Rockstar’s GTA VI website shows a silver locomotive with blue stripes and three exhaust vents on the roof pulling three single-level passenger cars through Port Gellhorn. The nose, the flat flanks and the coaches behind it read as a GE Genesis hauling Viewliner stock, which is to say an Amtrak long-distance train with the serial numbers filed off.

The operator is Amloco, Leonida’s answer to Amtrak. GTA V had Go Loco on its freight wagons and no passenger service at all, so this is the first intercity passenger train in the HD era.

Rockstar has not said. Aaron Garbut told interviewers he had spent time riding trains and buses around the map during development, and the Metromover in Vice City is confirmed as rideable transit, so a boardable Amloco service is plausible without being proven. The Freight Train page covers the goods side of Leonida’s railway.

Amtrak’s Silver Service trains to Florida run Viewliner sleepers behind Genesis units, and the real Florida coast between Jacksonville and Miami is exactly the route a Port Gellhorn to Vice City line would copy. No frame of the train in motion has been released beyond the postcard, so the render above is a placeholder until one is.