August 23, 2010
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(1) was built. In response, (2) was built. What are they?
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August 24th, 2010 at 11:35 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282649753 )
Jet Trains!
August 24th, 2010 at 11:37 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282649877 )
Jet powered trains.
1 – M-497 , a.k.a Black Beetle
2 – Russia’s answer, made from jets from a Yakovlev Yak-40 passenger airline.
August 24th, 2010 at 11:38 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282649900 )
Jet powered trains. (1) is the American M497, (2) is the Soviet comeback.
August 24th, 2010 at 11:39 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282649971 )
Both are jet powered trains.
1) is the M-497, built in USA. 2) was the Russian counterpart.
August 24th, 2010 at 11:40 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282650028 )
Answer addendum
Russian train: ER 22
August 24th, 2010 at 12:30 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282653012 )
Jet enhanced train cars, (1) is M-497 used in New York, (2) was a prototype made in Russia and had engines from the Yak-40 passenger jet plane and could go as fast as 249 km/h
August 24th, 2010 at 1:18 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282655931 )
Jet Engine powered Trains
1 – M-497, the American one.
2 – Russian response to M-497, fitted with Yak-40 passenger Jet plane engine.
August 24th, 2010 at 2:24 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282659860 )
obvious! rocket powered trains by the usa and russia, the 2. er22 (ussr) vs. the 1. m-497 (usa)
August 24th, 2010 at 2:47 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282661227 )
American and Soviet (respectively) ‘Jet Trains”.
The M-497 holds the US Speed record to this day.
August 24th, 2010 at 3:34 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282664076 )
1. New York Central’s Jet Powered M-497 in the 60s
2. in the 70s, the Russkies modified an ER22 to keep up with the jet-train arms race.
August 24th, 2010 at 4:07 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282666032 )
Jet powered trains.
1 – New York train, M-497
2 – Soviet train, SVL.
August 24th, 2010 at 5:59 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282672757 )
Jet powered Trains. The US’s M-497 and Russia’s response to it during the Cold War era.
August 24th, 2010 at 8:26 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282681565 )
Trains with Jet plane engines. They were built by USA and Russia.
August 24th, 2010 at 8:27 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282681628 )
1. M-497 Black Beetle
2. Yak-40
August 24th, 2010 at 8:45 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282682704 )
Jet Trains
1. M-497 Jet-Powered Train. – a modified Budd commuter car with US Air Force surplus General Electric J47-19 jet engines in a B36-H bomber engine pod planted on the top. It reached a top speed of 183.681 mph
2. In the 1970s, the Soviet Union also tried , installed on the train engine Yak-40 passenger aircraft to reduce the Siberian railway journey
August 24th, 2010 at 9:47 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282686438 )
1. The M-497 (nicknamed Black Beetle) was an experimental jet-powered locomotive test bed of the New York Central Railroad corporation, developed and tested in 1966 in the United States of America.
2. ER22 elektrichka with a pair of engines from the YAK-40 passenger jet on the roof.
August 24th, 2010 at 9:53 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282686815 )
Jet trains.
1. US Jet train. 2. Soviet’s response.
August 24th, 2010 at 10:16 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282688198 )
(1) is M-497 aka ‘Black Beetle” made by New York Central Railroad.
(2) is ER22 built in USSR in reply to Black Beetle.
August 25th, 2010 at 12:04 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282694665 )
jet powered trains
August 25th, 2010 at 4:05 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282709142 )
Turbojet Trains
(1)The first attempt to use turbojet engines on a railroad was made by the New York Central Railroad in 1966. Their railcar M-497 was able to reach speeds up to 184 miles per hour(296 km/h).
(2) The ER22 built in the USSR in 1970 was able to reach a speed of 250 kilometres per hour(160 mph)
August 25th, 2010 at 4:20 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282710001 )
1)Jet Powered M-497 by New York Central
2)Russia created a “SVL” which had a standard ER22 train, and two added Yak-40 engines
August 25th, 2010 at 4:40 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282711201 )
They both are Jet Powered trains.
The Soviet Union and the US were in a race to get the fastest train ever. :)
1 -> M-497 (nicknamed Black Beetle) was an experimental jet-powered locomotive test bed of the New York
Central Railroad corporation, developed and tested in 1966 in the USA.
The Russian train maker Kalininsky formed the Speed Wagon Laboratory and modified the chassis of one of their ER22 head engines to compete with 1.
August 25th, 2010 at 5:46 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282715198 )
Jet-powered trains?
August 25th, 2010 at 5:57 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282715838 )
Jet Trains
August 25th, 2010 at 7:12 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282720335 )
“Jet Trains”
August 25th, 2010 at 7:20 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282720823 )
Jet Powered trains
M-497 – a modified Budd commuter car with US Air Force surplus General Electric J47-19 jet engines in a B36-H bomber engine pod planted on the top..-built by the US
SVL (Russian abbreviation of “high-speed laboratory car”) was developed in Kalininsky carriage-building factory in the far 1970. Based on the train model ER22 it was able to move by means of two engines from the passenger jet Yak-40, installed at the front.
August 25th, 2010 at 8:45 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282725950 )
jet powered train
August 25th, 2010 at 9:34 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282728878 )
M-497, a jet train prototype built in the US back in the 60s. Not to be outdone, Soviet Russia built its own version with engines from a jet plane strapped to a train.
August 25th, 2010 at 11:28 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282735700 )
Jet (or Turbo-jet) propelled trains.
1) M-497 Black Beetle
2) ER22
August 25th, 2010 at 8:27 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282768072 )
1. M-497 ‘Black Beetle’ Jet Powered train
2. ER22 Soviet Turbojet Railcar
August 25th, 2010 at 9:43 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282772636 )
(1) M-497 Jet-Powered Train
(2) ER22 turbojet train
(1) was built by the US (New York Central Railroad) in 1966 … In response the USSR built (2) in 1970…
@boiledbeans : You people are getting very strict with answers and denying me my points.. :p
August 25th, 2010 at 9:53 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282773227 )
M-497 Black Beetle. In response , Russia built the ER22 – Soviet turbojet train.
August 25th, 2010 at 10:25 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282775142 )
1 is New York Central’s M-497 Jet Powered Train.
2 is Russian Jet Train.
August 25th, 2010 at 10:37 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282775855 )
1 was the jet train built by US. In responce, 2 ( a jet train by Russia) was built.
August 26th, 2010 at 4:48 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282798133 )
(2) Russian “Jet Train” with Yakovlev Yak-40 plane engines.
(1)An American train (named Black Beetle) featuring engines from a B-36 Peacemaker bomber.
August 26th, 2010 at 8:13 am, GMT +0000 ( 1282810422 )
Jet trains of the cold war era, by US and Russia!
August 26th, 2010 at 4:44 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1282841079 )
us train(1) & russian train(2),with jet plane engines