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Video: France Breaks World Rail Speed Record

by Justin Glow on Apr 3rd 2007 at 11:45AM

TGV intégral du Record 2007 574,8 km/h
Uploaded by Optimus03

A French train, stocked with an unreal 25,000 horsepower engine, broke the world rail speed record on Tuesday reaching 357.2 mph. The train was traveling from Strasbourg to Paris when it broke the record. It's pretty cool, but what I don't get is this article says that it did break the world rail speed record, it fell short of Japan's magnetically-lifted bullet train, which went 361 mph in 2003. Perhaps it has something to do with magnetics versus real wheels (which the French train had). Regardless, the video is cool.

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