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French TGV Sets World Speed Record (pg. 2)
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| Trance Nutter |
| quote: | 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.
| quote: | 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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| d-miurge |
| quote: | 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! :crazy: |
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| stren |
| quote: | Originally posted by d-miurge
It's safier than plane, |
no its not |
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| arj1o1 |
| I doubt the dutch NS even reaches 54 km/h.. always troubles there. |
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| jdat |
| quote: | Originally posted by nchs09
holy 570 kmp? i would be afraid to ride in that . i love how smooth the 200 mile an hour ones go.. well 180mph i guess :o |
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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| d-miurge |
| quote: | Originally posted by stren
no its not |
not the train in general, but the TGV is. |
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| stren |
| quote: | 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 ing love the trains. I wanted to be the driver (conductor ?) |
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| d-miurge |
| quote: | Originally posted by stren
gg then. I wish there were TGV's everywhere then, i ing 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. :p |
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| Lira |
| quote: | 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 :( |
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| ventoseness186 |
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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