In a factory yard north of Moscow, among the scrapyard of rusted and decrepit machines of Soviet times, a piece of Cold War history sits frozen in time. Its nose juts upward, sleek as a fighter jet.
In 1966, engineers at New York Central Railroad mounted two B-58 bomber jet engines onto a passenger railcar, creating the M-497 “Black Beetle.” It reached 183 mph—still the fastest speed ever ...
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