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Re: [OM] High Speed Trains

Subject: Re: [OM] High Speed Trains
From: "Michael R. Collins" <MRC.OlympusList@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 09:25:00 -0500
On 16-12-31 8:49 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
      Initially, I'm impressed with this.  They've added tilting so that the 
speed can be increased without building dedicated high-speed track corridors 
such as the French LGV, though the present trackage will need to up upgraded to 
handle the higher side loading as was done in France for the non-LGV trackage.

From 1968 - the UAC TurboTrain - "...one of the first tilting trains to enter service":

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAC_TurboTrain>

None too successful, as you'll read.

Michael

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