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Strange Train Near Atlanta

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Posted by Andrew Falconer on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 10:20 PM

That is not a locomotive!

It is really a Mass Transit train.

It would be great to have Magnetic-Levitation Mass Transit Trains where there used to be Passenger Trains and used to be Railroad Tracks.

The Transit forum watchers might have more opinions.

Andrew

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Posted by trainfan1221 on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 4:42 PM

I didn't even know anything like that existed yet.  Kinda neat.  The thought of getting from New York to Florida in only a few hours is intriguing.

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Posted by oltmannd on Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:54 AM

 Scum Mudd wrote:
I am a salesman and I visit a client reguarly near Powder Springs, GA.  Next to the Norfolk Southern yard and close to the adjacent US highway,  there is a shed with what looks like the front end of an Acela or "bullet train" sticking out.  It seems to have a test track in front of it that looks like it dead ends maybe a half mile away.  Does anyone know what this is and why it is there?

 I think you might have seen this: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=128333

 

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Strange Train Near Atlanta
Posted by Scum Mudd on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 6:08 PM
I am a salesman and I visit a client reguarly near Powder Springs, GA.  Next to the Norfolk Southern yard and close to the adjacent US highway,  there is a shed with what looks like the front end of an Acela or "bullet train" sticking out.  It seems to have a test track in front of it that looks like it dead ends maybe a half mile away.  Does anyone know what this is and why it is there?
Passenger rail for Western North Carolina, please?

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