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United Aircraft Corporation High-speed Jet turbine powered TurboTrain (1967, 170 mph)
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The very first run of the CN (Canadian) turbo train nailed a meat truck at top speed… with a full load of journalists on board. Talk about bad PR.
https://thewalrus.ca/off-the-rails/
I don’t want to entirely blame the sorry state of rail travel in my country in that one meat truck, but it’s not blameless…
Is this a VIA RAIL train from Canada?
yep it's theirs
CN operated the Turbos until 1978, when their passenger operations were taken over by Via Rail, who continued the service.