(With this post, we welcome aboard Trish, our newest listener blogger, who will be posting unusual findings in transit. - Ken)
Some video from the record breaking high speed train ride, this week. "As fast as a small plane," France's Train à Grande Vitesse (TGV) broke the world speed record for a conventional wheeled train clocking in at 357mph (574.8km) along the new stretch of the Paris-Strasbourg high speed line.
Sure, it's still a few clicks shy of breaking the 361 mph (581 km/h) world speed record for a train of any type, which is held by Japan's magnetic levitation train, but it's nonetheless «extrêmement spectaculaire!»
I say they race them side by side. Whoosh!
Two things about this:
First, the link is wrong. It's TGV.com, not tvg.com. TVG.com is for a satellite channel for horse racing and gambling.
Secondly, couldn't the french give their train system with a better name than train with high speed? Something to think about.
Posted by: Ace | April 06, 2007 at 04:56 PM
'TGV.com, not tvg.com'
Missed that. Fixed, now. Thanks.
And yeah, you'd think the sexy French could come up w/ a sexy name for a train. Maybe the speed of the thing interrupts that line of thinking..?
Japan's magnetic levitation train is better known as the Bullet, though I'm kinda partial to the former. Not for the high-tech sound of it, but because it can be so easily be misread as 'magic levitation train', like something you'd find at an amusement park.
Posted by: Listener Trish | April 06, 2007 at 05:42 PM
Rather have a GE ES44DC.
Posted by: Closet Train Geek | April 06, 2007 at 11:22 PM