From: gl4317@yahoo.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Philip Nasadowski  wrote:   
      
   > In article   
   > <20140531-032109.254.0@Calvin-Henry-Cotnam.free.teranews.com>,   
   >  Calvin Henry-Cotnam  wrote:   
   >   
   > > On December 20, 1967 one of the   
   > > sets managed to reach a speed of 170.8 mph (274.9 km/h), which is the   
   > > world speed record for a gas-turbine powered rail vehicle.   
   >   
   > TGV-001 broke it a few years later.   
      
      
   And, even those were just the speed record for gas turbine power.   
      
   11 years earlier two different conventional French electric locomotives   
   set records in the 199 mph and 206 mph range.   
      
   It would take a TGV running tests in the 1980s before those 1950s   
   records were broken by another train designed for revenue service   
   (unmanned rocket sleds that are incapable of passengers really don't   
   count for this tabulation).   
      
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