French Train Shatters Speed Record At 357.2 mph
A specially built French TGV (short for Train a Grande Vitesse, which is French for Really, Really Fast Train) today destroyed the old record for train speed by going 357.2 MPH on a special track built east of Paris. (The speed almost reached the maximum speed for a magnetically levitated train achieved some four years ago in Japan -- that train reached a speed of 360.8 mph.) The special train, built by the French company Alstom, is powered by two "supercharged" locomotive engines and has giant wheels. California's Governator sent a special delegation to France to study the train in order to study the feasibility of introducing the "Train a Grande Vitesse" to the GOLDEN STATE.
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I enjoy The Raw Feed and Mike's List. Please publish the List more frequently.
And I believe that TGV actually is the acronym of "très grande vitesse" which in French means "very high speed".
I do plan to ramp up the frequency of Mike's List -- I'm shooting for weekly, starting next week!
Mike
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