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French trains versus Canadian trains
4/3/2007 at 8:20 AM
A high-speed French train with a souped-up engine has broken the world speed record for conventional rail trains, hitting 570 kilometers an hour.
The black-and-chrome train with three double-decker cars, named the V150, bettered its own previous record of 515.3 km/h. However, it fell just short of the ultimate record set by Japan's magnetically levitated train, which reached 581 km/h in 2003.
One might consider these fast speeds as dangerous, but I must point out that these French trains are far more safer to travel in than any Canadian train traveling at 95 km/h.