SOVIET engineers’ visions of a futuristic turbo train which could hit lightening speeds now sits rotting in a factory yard. The 50 ton jet-powered train could reportedly hit speeds of around 180mph ...
In the mid-1960’s, New York Central Railroad engineer Don Wetzel was exploring ways to make trains run safer, cheaper, but most importantly: faster. And, clearly, the most logical means of ...
The front of the Soviet jet train on a monument in Tver, Russia. By Eskimozzz [PD], via Wikimedia Commons. It started with one of those odd links that pop up from time to time on Hacker News: “The ...
We at autoevolution usually deal with cars (mostly) and their derivatives, motorbikes (regularly) and bicycles, airplanes and spacecraft, and seafaring vessels. However, there is one unsung hero of ...
How do you make a train more awesome? Attached two jet engines to it. That's exactly what Don Wetzel of the New York Central Railroad did in 1966 with the help of GE. In the summer of 1966, railroad ...
Click to viewAh, the good old times of the Cold War: Space race! Arms race! Spy race! Trains race? While astronauts were floating in their tinfoil suits, the real action was happening down on rails: ...
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