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 ...

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 ...

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 full of rusting trains in Kalininsky, St Petersburg, the remnants of the Soviet Union’s futuristic ‘jet train’ sat abandoned for decades. Created with the hopes of becoming a new ...

I saw those words while flipping through The Journal Gazette's film files and I just had to stop and pull the envelope out. Inside was a single film negative with what looked like something out of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

During the 20th century, dramatic visions of what human life would soon be like through technological advances were extremely popular. People imagined that cheap space travel, permanent colonies on ...

Click to viewAh, the good old times of the Cold War: Space race! Arms race! Spy race! Trains race? While astronauts were floating in their tinfoil suits, the real action was happening down on rails: ...

As crazy as it may sound, you can try out a jet-powered rail car. Don’t think you can do that in reality, but at least you can feel a bit of the outlandish experience in a simulator. We ended up again ...