From: ce11son@yahoo.ca   
      
   On Tue, 27 May 2014 21:29:34 -0700, Glen Labah    
   wrote:   
      
   >In article ,   
   > Benjamin Kubelsky  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 5/27/2014 12:41 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote:   
   >> > http://englishrussia.com/2014/05/26/abandoned-and-rusty-sov   
   et-turbo-jet-tra   
   >> > in/   
   >> >   
   >>   
   >> Trying to outdo the New York Central, no doubt.   
   >   
   >   
   >There were a bunch of those things (single passenger car with an   
   >aircraft engine) built though, starting with the German "rail zeppalin"   
   >of 1929.   
   >   
   >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schienenzeppelin   
   >   
   >And then there was all the Aerotrain stuff the French built in the 1960s   
   >and 1970s:   
   >   
   >http://katcal.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/life-and-death-of-the-aerotrain/   
   >   
   Also the Bennie railplane :-   
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Qamg3C188   
   http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-george-bennie-railplane   
      
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