{"id":182,"date":"2009-10-27T13:41:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T13:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astick.net\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2009-10-27T13:41:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T13:41:34","slug":"leaving-on-a-jet-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/leaving-on-a-jet-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving, on a jet *train*?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1960s, American rail companies were falling behind developments overseas, such as the famous Japanese Shinkansen. So how did they attempt to experiment with new high speed rail?<\/p>\n<p>They took a diesel car, gave it a more streamlined nose, and stuck two military surplus jet engines on top.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/148\/354622925_dfc9d83948_o.jpg\" width=450px><br \/>\n<em>Awesome.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Budd_Rail_Diesel_Car#Jet_engines\">Wikipedia<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkroastedblend.com\/2007\/01\/jet-powered-other-futuristic-trains.html\">Dark Roasted Blend<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1960s, American rail companies were falling behind developments overseas, such as the famous Japanese Shinkansen. So how did they attempt to experiment with new high speed rail? They took a diesel car, gave it a more streamlined nose, and stuck two military surplus jet engines on top. Awesome. From Wikipedia and Dark Roasted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/leaving-on-a-jet-train\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leaving, on a jet *train*?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}