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By globalistgirl, on April 3rd, 2007

The TGV Record

The BBC reports that a TGV (Train de Grande Vitesse, “train of great speed”, a bullet train) made by Alstom has broken the previous speed record for trains on conventional tracks by going 574.8 km/h. That’s about as fast as a 747 or an A380. It is no surprise to me that the record was set by a European company on contract for a European government. Japan would also have been expected. Between Europe and Japan, it’s more of a which-company-was-it and what-technology-did-they-use kind of situation. What would really catch my attention would be news that an American company has broken the world speed record for any kind of train working on a contract for the U.S. government. That would be the day.

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