![]() 05/01/2019 at 20:40 • Filed to: Elon Musk was here | ![]() | ![]() |
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!
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They did try jet trains in France ...It was too noisy and too inefficient
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We did jet trains in the US as well. Both real jets:
And gas- turbine powered trains:
The collapse of private passenger rail and the oil crisis of the ‘70s did away with such things though.
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Have to be careful with those though, some of them really want to be boats:
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I think that just proves my point- we like our transportation loud and inefficient!
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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!
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This is the kind of take we come to Oppo for!
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As someone who's been dailying a 7.3 turbo diesel... Hell yeah brother !
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Came here just for this pic.
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Don’t forget turbines for freight service, the GTEL!
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Those are actually the MAX fuselages that Boeing is dumping in the Puget Sound.
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Looks like they just swiped an engine pod off of a B-47. I wonder how loud that was.
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That’s actually a recent picture of MAX fuselages.
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It’s like something I would’ve built out of Legos when I was 7.
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Whaat? What’s the story here?
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The only way this idea could get even better, take it to the streets
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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.
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Derailment and they dumped a load of 737s into the Clark fork river in Montana. I think this was 2017.