Supercondicting Model Train

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My ol' man was involved in superconducting research for some time when he worked for the Argonne Nat'l lab. He used liquid helium to cool things off, as it were. The work he did there was initially targeted to be employed in what would have been the largest particle accelerator at the time. Unfortunately funding was cut-off for the project and the lead in accelerators fell to CERN, which incorporated some of my Dad's work into its accelerator. Cool stuff that was...literally..