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Really looks like a penis.



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Sep 23, 2007, 08:23 AM
 
I realize this thread was just a set-up to the last image posted in the original post, but what the hell:

Germany's ICE
     
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I realize this thread was just a set-up to the last image posted in the original post, but what the hell:

Germany's ICE
Not hitech enough! Can anything beat the pure class, modernity, design and aesthetic of the Indian train?
     
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Ice Ice Baby
     
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JR Maglev - world record holder balling @ 581km/h (361mph)

     
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Would be good if they could make those go across the oceans.
     
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Sep 23, 2007, 01:55 PM
 
i read the title as twins all over the world.

sweet thread ntl


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I was on the Eurostar and ICE

amazing trains...smoother ride than any luxury car i've ever been in.
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Would be good if they could make those go across the oceans.
Indeed.
     
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Would be good if they could make those go across the oceans.
Like this? Discovery Channel :: Extreme Engineering: Transatlantic Tunnel
     
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Almost - Seikan Tunnel
     
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Originally Posted by analogika View Post
I realize this thread was just a set-up to the last image posted in the original post, but what the hell:

Germany's ICE
I think the ICE is the only train looking relatively decent (or at least a close second to the Indian train).
     
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Originally Posted by andreas_g4 View Post
I think the ICE is the only train looking relatively decent (or at least a close second to the Indian train).
too bad it is so slow.
     
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Originally Posted by stevesnj View Post
I was on the Eurostar and ICE

amazing trains...smoother ride than any luxury car i've ever been in.
I've been on the Eurostar (through the Chunnel), the ICE, and the TGV. I think the TGV wins for the feel of effortless high-speed motion. You're sitting their reading something, look-up, and see the speed indicator clocking 300Kph and you have *no* sense of motion unless you look out the window.
(Apparently the SNCF uses eminent domain to take land for the tracks so they go very straight for very long distances.)

Sigh! I wish we had trains like this in the United States. And NO, the Amtrak Acela does not count.
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Originally Posted by villalobos View Post
too bad it is so slow.
We designed the ICE to be glacially slow.

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Originally Posted by villalobos View Post
too bad it is so slow.
The train isn't slow at all, it's the tracks: on most tracks (which are old), it limps along, on the latest tracks it does 300 km/h easily and you don't feel a thing. If it hadn't a built-in speedometer, you wouldn't know how fast it is.
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Originally Posted by OreoCookie View Post
The train isn't slow at all, it's the tracks: on most tracks (which are old), it limps along, on the latest tracks it does 300 km/h easily and you don't feel a thing. If it hadn't a built-in speedometer, you wouldn't know how fast it is.
Yep.

Record is 407 km/h; regular max speed for the ICE 3/ICE 4 trains 300 km/h - on optimised tracks, 250 km/h on most others.

Would you believe that there's actually a model line called the ICE T, though? "Ice ICE Baby" indeed...
     
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I don't even know where to start...

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Originally Posted by analogika View Post
Yep.

Record is 407 km/h; regular max speed for the ICE 3/ICE 4 trains 300 km/h - on optimised tracks, 250 km/h on most others.

Would you believe that there's actually a model line called the ICE T, though? "Ice ICE Baby" indeed...
It's really a pity there aren't enough good tracks for it, between Munich and Nuremburg, they have built new 300 km/h tracks, but on the way to Cologne/Düsseldorf, there are parts it has to slow down to 160.
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