In the mid-1960’s, 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 ...

In a factory yard north of Moscow, among the scrapyard of rusted and decrepit machines of Soviet times, a piece of Cold War history sits frozen in time. Its nose juts upward, sleek as a fighter jet.

SOVIET engineers’ visions of a futuristic turbo train which could hit lightening speeds now sits rotting in a factory yard. The 50 ton jet-powered train could reportedly hit speeds of around 180mph ...

How do you make a train more awesome? Attached two jet engines to it. That's exactly what Don Wetzel of the New York Central Railroad did in 1966 with the help of GE. In the summer of 1966, railroad ...

A new train that could have revolutionized rail passenger travel was being tested locally. The new train, called the Rock Island Jet, was built by the American Car & Foundry in Berwick. The train was ...

The front of the Soviet jet train on a monument in Tver, Russia. By Eskimozzz [PD], via Wikimedia Commons. It started with one of those odd links that pop up from time to time on Hacker News: “The ...

SITTING rusting and abandoned in the yard of a Soviet Union-era factory is a vision of the future from a bygone era. With sleek rounded lines and two enormous engines bolted to the roof, once upon a ...

2002-10-16 04:00:00 PDT Washington-- With dollar-sign dreams tempting them, rail equipment manufacturers worldwide are eyeing California, where notions of a $25 billion high-speed passenger train ...

The turbo train was reportedly faster than the modern Japanese fast trains SOVIET engineers’ visions of a futuristic turbo train which could hit lightening speeds now sits rotting in a factory yard.