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My unhealthy obession with trains continues, fortunately I only like fast trains so I can lie to myself in order to sleep at night that it's just an extension of my like for big, fast machines.

Apparently gas turbine trains were running in the US and Canada in 1972 at over 100mph. These died out a handful of years before Britains Intercity 125 introduced 200km/h running without massive investment in electrification and dedicated tracks. Could developed gas turbine trains do for Nrth America what diesels did for Britain?
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