This Is High Speed Rail I Can Get Behind

Kinja'd!!! "LastFirstMI is my name" (donstone13)
05/01/2019 at 20:40 • Filed to: Elon Musk was here

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Who needs all that Fancy Japanese bullet train tech? Just give the contract to Boeing. Or maybe recycle all those decrepit MD-80’s American was flying up until just recently. Jet trains!


DISCUSSION (18)


Kinja'd!!! Spanfeller is a twat > LastFirstMI is my name
05/01/2019 at 20:52

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They did try jet trains in France ...It was too noisy and too inefficient  


Kinja'd!!! facw > Spanfeller is a twat
05/01/2019 at 21:04

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We did jet trains in the US as well. Both real jets:

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And gas- turbine powered trains:

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The collapse of private passenger rail and the oil crisis of the ‘70s did away with such things though.


Kinja'd!!! facw > LastFirstMI is my name
05/01/2019 at 21:07

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Have to be careful with those though, some of them really want to be boats:

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Kinja'd!!! LastFirstMI is my name > Spanfeller is a twat
05/01/2019 at 21:08

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I think that just proves my point- we like our transportation loud and inefficient!


Kinja'd!!! Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > LastFirstMI is my name
05/01/2019 at 21:10

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Hmmm, what if we also put some aerodynamic lifting surfaces on the train. Then we could eliminate the need for rails!


Kinja'd!!! ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > LastFirstMI is my name
05/01/2019 at 21:10

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This is the kind of take we come to Oppo for!


Kinja'd!!! nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > LastFirstMI is my name
05/01/2019 at 21:23

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As someone who's been dailying a 7.3 turbo diesel... Hell yeah brother !


Kinja'd!!! Ash78, voting early and often > facw
05/01/2019 at 21:35

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Came here just for this pic.


Kinja'd!!! daender > facw
05/01/2019 at 21:35

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Don’t forget turbines for freight service, the GTEL!

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Kinja'd!!! ttyymmnn > LastFirstMI is my name
05/01/2019 at 21:56

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Those are actually the MAX fuselages that Boeing is dumping in the Puget Sound. 


Kinja'd!!! ttyymmnn > facw
05/01/2019 at 21:57

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Looks like they just swiped an engine pod off of a B-47. I wonder how loud that was. 


Kinja'd!!! ttyymmnn > facw
05/01/2019 at 21:58

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That’s actually a recent picture of MAX fuselages. 


Kinja'd!!! LastFirstMI is my name > ttyymmnn
05/01/2019 at 22:00

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It’s like something I would’ve built out of Legos when I was 7. 


Kinja'd!!! BaconSandwich is tasty. > facw
05/01/2019 at 23:05

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Whaat?  What’s the story here?


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05/01/2019 at 23:23

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/todayinthesky/2014/07/05/train-derailment-spills-boeing-737-fueslages-into-river/12258639/


Kinja'd!!! Dusty Ventures > LastFirstMI is my name
05/01/2019 at 23:36

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The only way this idea could get even better, take it to the streets


Kinja'd!!! Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > facw
05/02/2019 at 00:06

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Ha ha I remember that. Fucking MRL what a joke. That happened on the Clark fork river not to far from Missoula Montana.


Kinja'd!!! Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > BaconSandwich is tasty.
05/02/2019 at 00:07

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Derailment and they dumped a load of 737s into the Clark fork river in Montana. I think this was 2017.