From: calvin@remove.daxack.ca   
      
   Philip Nasadowski (nasadowsk@usermale.com) said...   
   >   
   >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.   
      
   A TGV with a gas-turbine engine?!?   
      
   That would be interesting to have seen. I never knew that a TGV had   
   been equipped with a gas-turbine engine so that it could break the world   
   speed record for gas-turbine powered rail vehicles.   
      
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   Calvin Henry-Cotnam   
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