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Saturday, June 19th, 2010*
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Image: (Model Railroader) via drunkenfist.com; (photo of tunnel) (AP photo by Mary Altaffer / via Chicago Tribune;
Archive for the 'Trains' Category
Amtrak Trials First Cow-Powered Train–Manchester Guardian headline, 4/27/2010
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010*
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Erstwhile mule-skinner Rusty Ketchum leads the
Afternoon Congressional out of Washington, D.C.’s Union Station
and accelerates the train to 180 m.p.h. on the first long
straight section of roadbed. The electric-diesel livestock are imports from the 4-H Club of Wister, Oklahoma and require almost daily
maintenance by a hand-picked crew of six technicians.
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The actual story is here.
Images: (train) […]
Rumor has it that the Tooth King had run a tugboat outfit in Port Dixon.
Friday, August 31st, 2007*
REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad (MALAYSIA)
Malaysia’s Tooth King Breaks World Record
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 (Bernama) — Malaysia’s Tooth King, Rathakrishnan Velu broke a new world record today when he completed a successful attempt using his teeth to pull three Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) commuter coaches, weighing 297.1 tonnes, for a distance of 2.8 metres.
The feat is his […]
Going this fast would have dampened the coquettish evil…
Thursday, April 5th, 2007of Robert Walker in Stangers On A Train.
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Le Reseau–Le Train ‘Tres Grande Vitesse’
April 4, 2007
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Mon Dieu! So fast it was terrifying
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Our correspondent was the only British journalist on board the French TGV train as it hit 357mph on yesterday’s record-breaking ride into the unknown undefined
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Ben Webster
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Not the Ben Webster who was one of my […]
If Feller is on, France, Germany & Japan don’t stand a chance!
Monday, April 2nd, 2007France’s V150 Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) is seen here at the “Reims Bezannes” station on the new high-speed line built between Paris and the eastern city of Strasbourg, on the eve of an attempt to break its own world speed record.(AFP/Francois Nascimbeni)
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French train aims to break world speed record
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PARIS (AFP) - France’s […]