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Talk about speed!
How would you like to ride shotgun with the TGV engineer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:T...e_DSC08895.jpg http://www.glumbert.com/media/tgv 574.8 km/h (357 mph) :eek: |
Now that's fast!
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Specs are something like voltage increased from 24,000 to 32,000 volts. One puller and one pusher engine. Total h.p. 25,000. It's a BIG block! :D
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I was on one of the really fast trains from Paris to London about 3 years ago, I don't think it was that one as I was told we were going 300Km an hour. It was amazing at first, but you get very used to the speed. Its just hard to see anything as it goes by so quickly...wonder why we don't have them in the states?
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Ernie, that's not a big block,
IT'S A BIG BLOCK! :LOL: :LOL: |
Why not here?
Highly subsidized ($billions) by their governments:( Gasoline $6 a gallon or more:eek: We use trains for freight, they use them for people based on population density and distance between population centers. Rights of way are pretty much defined and limited. We are cowboys and like our own horse power and they are so urbane (as in urban cowboy) and like being herded, especially if they think somebody else is paying for it:LOL:
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The is the "someone else paying for it" is the government.....the folks with the money machine that never costs you a franc.
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If we tried it here in the US, the gvt would award it to Amtrack. Can you imagine that group attempting to manage these trains!
Claudia and I rode the Euro-Star about 10 yrs ago. In England it was slow yet very smooth. Once in France they turned on the power and we were got up to 187MPH. Very slow compared to this train but still you cound not focus on anything closer than about a 1/2 mile. Almost makes me want to go back for a little train ride. James |
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