"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
12/27/2018 at 05:03 • Filed to: russia, almost hour rule
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"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
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how cool would those jet trains have been?
plus a conventional train
TheRealBicycleBuck
> pip bip - choose Corrour
12/27/2018 at 05:59 |
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I don’t know much about them, but I’d guess the noise did them in. I’d bet they also had problems pulling out of the terminal. Nothing like a big jet wash to clear the platform!
bhtooefr
> TheRealBicycleBuck
12/27/2018 at 08:16 |
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IIRC the big problem with them was fuel consumption - they were fast, but hideously inefficient. Electrification became the high speed option of choice after the 1973 oil crisis.
LongbowMkII
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12/27/2018 at 08:28 |
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I think an issue would be to get efficiency without size.
Ash78, voting early and often
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12/27/2018 at 09:50 |
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Those would require so much fuel, you’d willingly be strapping yourself into a rolling bomb.
So basically like an airliner, but with a ton more shit to crash into.
user314
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12/27/2018 at 10:00 |
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I love that M-497 was essentially a regular diesel locomotive with a jet engine pod off a B-36 strapped to the roof.
She hit 183.68mph during test runs, but NYC was merged into Penn Central soon afterwards, and Pennsy was working with the DOT on Metroliners, which later served with the PC’s successor company AMTRAK. The jets were removed from M-497 and used to build a snowblower, while the train went back to regular service until it was retired from Conrail in ‘77.
