the same it appears was true back in the 1960s,
none knew what to do with them, but in a strange turn of events both Russia and the USA decided to make their trains go faster at roughly the same time,
by bolting turbo jet engines on to the top of trains, no Russian examples were thought to have survived, until now when the last soviet model was found rusting away in back of the Kalinin
rail car factory near Doroshikha,
in all of its glory, going back to the American jet engined trains,
interestingly the M-497 'Black Beetle' as the press dubbed
it, reached a top speed of 183.68 mph, a record for a light-rail
vehicle at the time that still stands today in the United States as the
fastest and one still yet to be beaten.
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