it really pisses me off the the U.S. government isn't investing in infrastructure like this.

eff it...that's an easy way to waste money here in the US. What would you do with a train like that? Our airlines can't even make it without government subsidation, why would we need more means of long range travel??? Just a plain waste of my money and I'm glad Prop 1A here in California didn't pass.

>> ^rottenseed:
eff it...that's an easy way to waste money here in the US. What would you do with a train like that? Our airlines can't even make it without government subsidation, why would we need more means of long range travel??? Just a plain waste of my money and I'm glad Prop 1A here in California didn't pass.


Wait a few more years for oil to get even more expensive and you will see. Right now the Boston-New York train is always fully booked and just a few years ago it was nearly going brankrupt.

With all the stupid airport security, long commutes to airports, and the price of jet fuel, Trains are faster and cheaper.

The US is in a privileged position in terms of its oil prices, which are 2 or 3 times cheaper than the price at the pump in Europe. But the oil will eventually dry up and it will be better spend if used for drugs and plastics, rather than burned away.

This train runs on electricty. Electricity, that in all likelyhood comes from one of France's 59 nuclear plants. Pretty impressive, for a country smaller than Texas.

Do you think that the airshots were from a helicopter or an airplane? Can a helicopter go this fast?

>> ^illeto:
Do you think that the airshots were from a helicopter or an airplane? Can a helicopter go this fast?


The sky footage was taken from a jet plane, you actually see the plan from the train in some of the shots.

Luckily for me, my country invented the railway, so we have always had the infrastructure for train travel, it just needs a little "upgrading".

Dupe. http://www.videosift.com/video/Train-sets-new-world-record-for-speed-575-KpH-360-MpH

Dupe eh? my 10 minute video is a dupe of a 2.x minute Reuters newsclip?

I've been inside the "cockpit"/engineer booth of that train. They exhibited it on a barge in Paris across the Eiffel tower last year. INCREDIBLY cramped - so much so that it could induce an attack of claustorphobia if you're susceptible to that sort of thing.

It was a very cool display - and a lucky fluke that we happened to be there the right day! The French even gave out SNCF-TGV souvenir hats, which was a nice twist. And I was insulted for having "un grand tête américain" by an old Parisian woman while in line too. Very cliched.

Smart use of editing to keep it from being boring.

Don't get me wrong, dc, your version is far superior. But how close does the content have to be before it's considered a duplicate? If it's Sift policy to allow one "edited" and one "unedited" version, then I guess it's not a dupe.