Actually, they're jet engines on a Soviet experimental train.... [grin]
SVL (High-speed Laboratory Railcar), was built in the USSR in 1970.The SVL was able to reach a speed of 250 kilometres per hour (160 mph). This locomotive was built on a basis of the main engine railcar of ER22 electric multiple unit.
Ahead of its time maybe? Or they just couldn't get it to work properly? Possibly completely uneconomic? If it was built for propaganda purposes rather than for economic ones it might explain why it was a failure.
Propaganda purposes wouldn't surprise me. A few of their later spacecraft were supposedly like that, as well as their Concorde imitation. I think you shared that story a few months back with an apparent Concorde picture? Or perhaps it was a youtube vid I saw..
Concordski wasn't me - not this time anyway. I always thought of it as the poster child for industrial espionage... [grin]
Of course the problem with Concorde is that it was a solution looking for a problem. For its time it was pretty amazing but didn't really fill a real need. The much talked about environmental impact of the flights was, I think, an excuse to kill it.
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looks like home to me... but we don't have air conditioning like they do(the units on the roof).
Actually, they're jet engines on a Soviet experimental train.... [grin]
SVL (High-speed Laboratory Railcar), was built in the USSR in 1970.The SVL was able to reach a speed of 250 kilometres per hour (160 mph). This locomotive was built on a basis of the main engine railcar of ER22 electric multiple unit.
I gather they didn't develop it for use later on.
Ahead of its time maybe? Or they just couldn't get it to work properly? Possibly completely uneconomic? If it was built for propaganda purposes rather than for economic ones it might explain why it was a failure.
Propaganda purposes wouldn't surprise me. A few of their later spacecraft were supposedly like that, as well as their Concorde imitation. I think you shared that story a few months back with an apparent Concorde picture? Or perhaps it was a youtube vid I saw..
Concordski wasn't me - not this time anyway. I always thought of it as the poster child for industrial espionage... [grin]
Of course the problem with Concorde is that it was a solution looking for a problem. For its time it was pretty amazing but didn't really fill a real need. The much talked about environmental impact of the flights was, I think, an excuse to kill it.
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