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And as a special bonus: a bridge in Creuse used by these trains:

Both pictures from this fansite

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Sep 26th, 2005 at 06:14:24 PM EST
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Awesome! As for the Turbotrain, I'm just envious! I'm too young, I only catched the very end of the magnificent diesel luxury express trains (I was only lucky to see a German TEE trainset class 601 in the Rhine Valley in what must have been one of its very last ordinary runs) - and never saw a turbine-driven one (wonder what kind of noise it made).

BTW, for our US readers: some of such French Turbotrains were sold to the USA, where AMTRAK ran them until they would have to be overhauled. Three years ago, some of them were supposed to be refubrished for New York - Albany service, but budget constraints led AMTRAK's leadership to sabotage the project. (Also for US readers, a recommendation: I could follow this story in this US e-zine.)



*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Tue Sep 27th, 2005 at 06:31:00 AM EST
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