Train-Sim.Com
General

Archived thread - Read only Previous Topic | Next Topic

Notice to all visitors and members of the Train-Sim.Com message forums:
If you plan on using a signature banner in your posts, we would like to remind you that there is a maximum size for banners. That maximum is 450 pixels wide by 120 pixels high, and not to exceed 25k. Your compliance is appreciated. FORUM RULES Problems? There are two common reasons for problems with logging in and posting messages. The first is that you are running a firewall that prevents your messages from being sent to the server. The other is that you have cookies disabled; the DCForum software requires cookies to work properly.

Archived thread - Read only
Previous Topic | Next Topic

Printer-friendly copy Email this topic to a friend

Reading Topic #1387

Charter Member · 1750 posts

Sorry for this unusual request, but I was wondering whether there is any place on the web where I could watch the video clip from the May 1990 TGV world speed record (320 mph). Saw it in a TV report some time ago, but forgot to record it. The video clip I am referring to is the one where the camera is placed right besides the trackbed at ground level. Then, after a few seconds, the train races past the camera, rocking it from the shock wave and covering it with dust trailing behind the train.Thanks!D.M."Homini plurima ex homine sunt mala." - Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 7,1,5
Dominik Mann Visit www.tssf.de - www.bahn.de - http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/ - www.eisenbahnforum.de

Printer-friendly page | Top

Charter Member · 1543 posts

RE: OT: TGV World Speed Record video clip?

I dont have a link to the TGV but this link will take you to the Transrapid site and you can download the worlds fastest train..
http://www.transrapid.de/en/index.html
This Transrapid has beat the TGV for the fastest production train Archived thread - Read only Previous Topic | Next Topic – image 1
patm41

Printer-friendly page | Top

Charter Member · 303 posts

RE: OT: TGV World Speed Record video clip?

Sorry, don't know where the video clip is, you'll probably have to contact French TV to get hold of it. There are a couple of good general TGV clips from Clem Tiller's site: http://www.trainweb.org/tgvpages.I don't count the Maglev as a true 'train', in that it effectively is a guided airliner (much the same as a guided bus). True, the technology is quite awesome, and performance runs show it to be the fastest guided vehicle on the planet (with the exception of rocket sleds), but a 'train' implies that its in contact (all being well) with the rails, not merely floating in a magnetic field. Well thats just my view. Now a rocket sled....
designers, it's over to you! Archived thread - Read only Previous Topic | Next Topic – image 2

Printer-friendly page | Top


[ Home | MSTS Forum | MSTS FAQ | File Library ] Copyright © 2002 by Nels Anderson. All Rights Reserved.

Restored from the Train-Sim.Com archive, captured April 30, 2003. About this archive.