Gadget & Tech News

A specially built French TGV (short for Train a Grande Vitesse, which is French for Really, Really Fast Train) today destroyed the old record for train speed by going 357.2 MPH on a special track built east of Paris. (The speed almost reached the maximum speed for a magnetically levitated train achieved some four years ago in Japan — that train reached a speed of 360.8 mph.) The special train, built by the French company Alstom, is powered by two “supercharged” locomotive engines and has giant wheels. California’s Governator sent a special delegation to France to study the train in order to study the feasibility of introducing the “Train a Grande Vitesse” to the Golden State.

Original post by Mike