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Monsters Machines: This 1960s Jet Train Is Still America’s Fastest Locomotive
In the mid-1960s, New York Central Railroad engineer Don Wetzel was exploring ways to make trains run safer, cheaper, but most importantly faster. And, clearly, the most logical means of accomplishing all three of these objectives was to strap a pair of US Air Force surplus jet engines to the roof of a prototype high-speed…