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CarStuff

High Speed Trains

CarStuff

iHeartPodcasts

History, Leisure, Automotive

4.4584 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2009

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

When most Americans think of trains, they tend to imagine slow-moving lines of boxcars. However, throughout the world high-speed trains routinely break 100 miles per hour. Learn more about high-speed trains in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.

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1:00.9

Hi, everybody, and welcome to the podcast.

1:05.6

I'm Scott Benjamin, the auto editor here at How Stuff Works, and I've got Ben with me.

1:06.4

How you doing today, Ben?

1:31.5

You know what, man, I am always doing well when I run into you and get a chance to talk about some cars or really just anything high speed, right? I've got a surprise for you then. We're going to not talk about cars today. Wait, what? What show are we on? What show are we on? What is high-speed stuff, I know, but high-speed trains. That's what we're going to go for today. high-speed trains because it seems like, I don't know, just seems like a logical move for us.

2:00.8

I mean, it's not necessarily automotive, not really what we normally do, not in our wheelhouse, but I think high speed trains are interesting. And it's fast. Very fast, yeah. Well, we'll find out just how fast as we kind of progress here. but I guess what we need to do first is we need to define what a high-speed train really is, right? That's just what I was going to ask you. What is a high-speed train? I didn't mean to jump on anything. No, no. It's like you're reading my mind, dude. What do you think would be fast right now? Because I think I have an idea that you know this answer already, but... Fast right now.

2:01.7

Hit me with it.

2:02.3

If you know it for sure, just tell me.

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