Märklin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gebr. Märklin & Cie. GmbH or Märklin (MÄRKLIN or MAERKLIN in capital letters) is a German toy company, founded in 1859. Although it originally specialised in doll house accessories, today it is best known for model railways and technical toys. In some parts of Germany, the company's name is almost synonymous with model railroads. In 2009 Märklin celebrated its 150th anniversary. Märklin filed for bankruptcy on 4 February 2009, but on 5 February 2010 announced a return to profitability. History Märklin released its first wind-up train with cars that ran on expandable track in 1891, noting that railroad toys had the potential to follow...

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Record TGV 574,8 km/h du 03 avril 2007 filmé du PK 196,4 TGV world speed record 574,8 km/h on april 3rd 2007

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The TGV (French: Train à Grande Vitesse, meaning high-speed train) is France's high-speed rail service, currently operated by SNCF Voyages, the long-distance rail branch of SNCF, the French national rail operator. It was developed during the 1970s by GEC-Alsthom (now Alstom) and SNCF. Although originally designed to be powered by gas turbines, the TGV prototypes evolved into electric trains. Following the inaugural TGV service between Paris and Lyon in 1981, the TGV network, centered on Paris, has expanded to connect cities across France and in adjacent countries. A TGV test train driven by Eric Pieczak set the record for the fastest wheeled train, reaching 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph) on 3...

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That kid got pwn3d

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French TGV new record is now set at 574.8 kmh (357.2mph). For the record, all chairpersons were onboard the train, together with a load of officials, including international journalists and Ms Fiona Ma, a California senator. See also this related video: www.youtube.com TGV Info site (2007): www.record2007.com TGV Network Map (1999) www.trainweb.org

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TGV 9264 from Lausanne (9:03 am) to Paris-Gare-de-Lyon (1:03 pm) is leaving Lausanne. The EMU is TGV Réseau 112, owned by SBB CFF FFS (Swiss Federal Railways). August 29th, 2008.

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Video from my 7th eurotrip

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Greatest bus driver EVER

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Mix of whistling high-speed trains in France: TGV Haute-Picardie train station on LGV-Nord rail line. Champagne-Ardenne TGV train statio on LGV-Est rail line. Each TGV (gray-blue) train set & Thalys (maroon-gray) is 200m long, two power cars and eight carriages. Eurostar (yellow-white) is ~400m long, two power cars and 18 carriages. So you can calculate the speed if you have time stopper. 19 dec. 2009 (from my Eurotrip-9) soundtrack: 1) Airbase - Theme From The Rock [remix] 2) William Orbit - Adagio For Strings [Paul Oakenfold mix] 3) The Doors - People Are Strange [Infected Mushroom Remix] 4) Infected Mushroom - Franks

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Airbus A310-300 CS-TGV 'São Miguel' performing a very nice landing under strong crosswinds. Airline: SATA Internacional (S4/RZO) - Portugal Aircraft: Airbus A310-300 Registration: CS-TGV (Portugal) Flight: S4/RZO 9330 LPPT-LPPD-MDPC (Lisboa-Ponta Delgada-Punta Cana) Date: 01/03/2010 (March 1, 2010) Location: Ponta Delgada Airport (LPPD/PDL)

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Video of GPS speeed readout aboard TGV Duplex and TGV-R tri-current setsaccelerating northbound along the TGV Mediteranee line from Aix-En-Provence TGV station on a Marseille to Lille (and Brussells) service. Equipment used to measure speed was a Qstarz Q-1000P Datalogger. HP Ipaq 4700 running Memory Map software. TGV Duplex unit 704 was leading at the front of the train with TGV-R set 4511 on the rear. The start is mainly level track until around 1min 55 seconds into the run, then downhill until 3 min 44 secs, followed by a long and steep uphill climb until around 5 min 30 secs in the video. This explains the brief interlude in acceleration along the way. The train eventually reached...

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The noise is amazing because the TGV make the race whit an airplane ( "jet" type) !!! You can see the plane on the left at the end of the video, note the bridge after the trains was passed is the place where the record point is !! It's the stuff the most amazing what i had seen about railways ! Between KM 196/ KM 195

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The TGV " la poste" at classic speed, about 270kmh/170mph!!

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This guy !

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Videos from hike along LGV Est (high-speed rail line) from Champagne-Ardenne TGV station. It was a hot day (above 40°C) 27 june 2010 (from my Eurotrip-13) soundtrack: 1) DJ Napo & Alex TrackOne - Energy 2) Daft Punk - The Son of Flynn (soundtrack from Tron Legacy) 3) Angels & Wippenberg - Angels Theme (G-Aria) 4) Infected Mushroom - The Legend of the Black Shawarma

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