From New York Times, A high-speed French train broke the world speed record Tuesday for conventional rail trains, reaching 357.2 mph (about 574.858 km/h). It is armed with a 25,000-horsepower engine and special wheels.?Here is the original news. In 1990, the French train, named V150, set the previous record of 320.2 mph (about 515.312 km/h), which it had been kept about?seventeen years in aspect of the conventional rail train.
It travels along a newly built track near Jaulny near Pont-a-Mousson, eastern France, April 3, 2007. (from the news of China Daily)
Here?are pictures of?the special V150 French TGV high-speed train which it set the new record.
(the picture is from the New York Times).
(the picture is from China Daily).