@cstross
Where does 193 tons of locomotive park?

@Steveg58 Wherever it wants to!

(But why are your locomotives so heavy? No overhead electrified traction and no electric multiple units—with a motor on every bogie—so only the loco has drive wheels and it needs mass to hold it in contact with the rails while it's laying down the torque, that's why. Primitive!)

@cstross
Hee hee.
TGV World speed record 574.8 km/h in french

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@cstross
Nice, but it is such a small light train, of course it gets to go fast.
Here is a report of 40-50 thousand tons doing 144 kph: https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2018/rair/ro-2018-018
@Steveg58 @cstross [goes to meep quietly in a corner]