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French TGV Sets World Speed Record

Damn...






and of course one with shitty shitty electronic music!





ZOOM!

Now the French are able to deliver a white flag from Paris to Berlin in under two hours.

I love how the *woosh* of the train just totally cuts off after it goes off camera. Speedy.

hope safety comes first. God Forbid that thing falls of the tracks.

holy shit 570 kmp? i would be afraid to ride in that shit. i love how smooth the 200 mile an hour ones go.. well 180mph i guess

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Originally posted by nchs09 holy shit 570 kmp? i would be afraid to ride in that shit. i love how smooth the 200 mile an hour ones go.. well 180mph i guess

Yea, I think its going to run at the normal speed of the other TGV lines, they just did this as a stunt.

It's a new engine though, 25,000 horsepower, be a shame not to go faster.

China/japan has the fastest train ... Dunno when AMTRAK would pick up this much speed

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Originally posted by LiquidNitrogen China/japan has the fastest train ...

No they don't you fucking twat... lol, France does.

Japan might have the fastest speed limits, but France has the fastest traditional train. Hell this thing was only 10mph under the maglev tran speed record.

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Originally posted by LiquidNitrogen China/japan has the fastest train ... Dunno when AMTRAK would pick up this much speed

they won't. they'd have to build new tracks and american rail companies don't have that kind of money.

Yea the fastest trains in the US run the Northeast corridor between DC/Baltimore and New York/Boston, and they barely reach speeds comparable to anything in Europe or Japan.

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Originally posted by PERF003TX Yea, I think its going to run at the normal speed of the other TGV lines, they just did this as a stunt.

and attract new customers ....might get us new market with argentina or brazil for example

and? thats not a passenger train, just a couple of locomotives hooked together.

it prolly killed ten rabbits for that record|

trains PWN

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Originally posted by biznology and? thats not a passenger train, just a couple of locomotives hooked together.

There were passenger cars and people riding it.

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Originally posted by biznology it prolly killed ten rabbits for that record|

yeah only 10, bit of a poor effort really

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Originally posted by Trancealot hope safety comes first. God Forbid that thing falls of the tracks.

It's safier than plane, and way better for our environment.

From Nizza to Paris in 3 hours!

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Originally posted by d-miurge It's safier than plane,

no its not

SICK

I doubt the dutch NS even reaches 54 km/h.. always troubles there.

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Originally posted by nchs09 holy shit 570 kmp? i would be afraid to ride in that shit. i love how smooth the 200 mile an hour ones go.. well 180mph i guess

I forget if I'm off by a digit or so but here is the speed info for the tgv:
-current max travelling speed ( 320 or 220? )
-projected max speed on the updated lines, and the new East line will be around 350 370 ( 250/270?! )

When the east line is fully in place it will take about 3 hours and a half instead of 5 or so to go to Paris from where I live

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Originally posted by stren no its not

not the train in general, but the TGV is.

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Originally posted by d-miurge not the train in general, but the TGV is.

gg then. I wish there were TGV's everywhere then, i fucking love the trains. I wanted to be the driver (conductor ?)

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Originally posted by stren gg then. I wish there were TGV's everywhere then, i fucking love the trains. I wanted to be the conductor

Yeah me too, they must feel the speed, a bit like the F1 pilots, but with rails.

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Originally posted by CranberryJuice and attract new customers ....might get us new market with argentina or brazil for example

yes, yes, yes!!!! I want the TGV here!!!

Why is it taking this long? The project is 5 years old already

It's a real shame that rail travel in the US went down so much in the late 60's and 70's.

I really love trains, what I would have given to ride in a dome car through the Cascades or Rockies on the Great Northern's Empire Builder...




Amtrak is good, but its a shell of the private rail companies of the first half of the 20th century that ruled American travel.

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Originally posted by Trancealot hope safety comes first. God Forbid that thing falls of the tracks.

LOL, SOOOO many people gonna die

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