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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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The Sheenan Zeppelin

The Sheenan Zeppelin was a train that was designed and developed by Franz Krukenberg in 1929. It still holds the record for the fastest petrol driven rail vehicle with speeds of 143 miles an hour. However, having a giant open propeller near passengers on a platform was very dangerous. And also the fact that the 100 year old tracks weren't really ready for a high speed train meant that this never went into production. But I think this is a really cool and interesting thing and we're... Oh, war.

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