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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a factory yard north of Moscow, among the scrapyard of rusted and decrepit machines of Soviet times, a piece of Cold War history sits frozen in time. Its nose juts upward, sleek as a fighter jet.

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A travel startup is charging a staggering $18,500 for a six-person charter aboard a private jet–style rail car hooked onto an ...

The turbo train was reportedly faster than the modern Japanese fast trains SOVIET engineers’ visions of a futuristic turbo train which could hit lightening speeds now sits rotting in a factory yard.