From: stephen@sprunk.org   
      
   On 05-Jun-14 10:53, Calvin Henry-Cotnam wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Gas turbine was the original TGV plan, so that was what the prototype   
   used; then the oil crisis hit, though, so they switched to electric, and   
   that is what they have used ever since.   
      
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