A stroll down the Seine the other day presented a few man-made marvels.
Recently the fastest train in the world, SNCF's trainset 4402, was floated down the Seine for all to see. It is of the TGV family, which now holds the world speed record for conventional rail travel of a tad less than 575 km/h. Looks like a normal TGV from the outside with a cool paint job, good news for street car tuners, maybe those blue lights and garish colours do make it go faster. Wow! 575.... hmm more than half a plane without the 'please arrive an hour before' inconvenience...
Recently the fastest train in the world, SNCF's trainset 4402, was floated down the Seine for all to see. It is of the TGV family, which now holds the world speed record for conventional rail travel of a tad less than 575 km/h. Looks like a normal TGV from the outside with a cool paint job, good news for street car tuners, maybe those blue lights and garish colours do make it go faster. Wow! 575.... hmm more than half a plane without the 'please arrive an hour before' inconvenience...
Further down I popped in to Manhattan, well sort of, a quieter, less assuming, smaller version of the one the French shipped off to the States in 1886. Much of the structural work done by some guy called Eiffel...
I'm afraid while I am in Paris, you will have to put up with many a picture of The tower. It dominates the concept of Paris, and to think it was to be a temporary exhibit. Of course it's an essential part of the Seine scenes.
Speed, liberty and endurance... sounds like the perfect combination.
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