07-08-2013, 04:21 AM
If one steam engine will be claimed to be the really fastest steam engine of the world, then it must be this one:
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There was enough power to reach such world record speeds without the helping advantage of an downward gradient.
And there is another anniversary, rather quiet not so spectacular, speed world record on rails:
110 years ago they reached 210kph (app. 132mph):
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210kph was the absolute speed record on land, air, water and rail, never mankind has had reached this speed before.
Lutz
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There was enough power to reach such world record speeds without the helping advantage of an downward gradient.
And there is another anniversary, rather quiet not so spectacular, speed world record on rails:
110 years ago they reached 210kph (app. 132mph):
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210kph was the absolute speed record on land, air, water and rail, never mankind has had reached this speed before.
Lutz