Friday, 18 March 2011

Rocket train

The sort of design produced by engineers who haven't grasped the concept of scalability.

4 comments:

eon said...

Mach 1+ at ground level? Quite aside from the obvious compressibility-related problems for the train itself, that would certainly make living within five miles either side of its right-of-way interesting.

cheers

eon

Ironmistress said...

Gives an all new meaning to the concept of "bullet train".

Or a projectile train anyway.

jayessell said...

'The Love Boat' on rails:

http://nbc_supertrain.tripod.com/index.html

Anonymous said...

Not going to be too popular when it hits a bend either! Not to mention the carnage at level crossings and stations it doesn't stop at!