An old friend of mine just retired from the Acela. He used to be a software engineer before he got disillusioned with GE, worked his way up to engineer. He's headed off into the sunset in Tucson, from Connecticut.
I was 10. I flew into Seattle on a DC-8, rode the monorail to the Space Needle, went back to the airport and flew on a DC-3 across the Straits to Victoria where I spent the summer. High adventure for such a young'n.
The second locomotive, being towed in the picture, set a record of 126 MPH in 1938. Of course this happened in a more advanced nation: England.<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/02/05/article-0-1B378E7B00000578-499_964x659.jpg">Meanwhile the so-called Acela Express hits 80 MPH in some places.
An old friend of mine just retired from the Acela. He used to be a software engineer before he got disillusioned with GE, worked his way up to engineer. He's headed off into the sunset in Tucson, from Connecticut.
Jet packs?
But look at all that stainless on the streamlined fascia! So cool.
Except that it looks like the plaster came off on the part on the lower side, leaving the stainless lath exposed.
I figgered as much.
I was 10. I flew into Seattle on a DC-8, rode the monorail to the Space Needle, went back to the airport and flew on a DC-3 across the Straits to Victoria where I spent the summer. High adventure for such a young'n.