From: stephen@sprunk.org   
      
   On 05-Jun-14 23:56, Glen Labah wrote:   
   > In article , Stephen Sprunk   
   >  wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > It was a bit more involved than that.   
      
   Of course.  But my point was that the original TGV plan was to use gas   
   turbines; it wasn't, as the person I responded to said, a case of a TGV   
   train being equipped with a gas turbine just to win a speed record.   
      
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