The Soviets Built a Jet Powered Train and It Was as Wild as It Sounds | News World

In a factory yard north of Moscow, among the scrapyard of rusted and decrepit machines of Soviet times, a piece of Cold War history sits frozen in time. Its nose juts upward, sleek as a fighter jet. Twin aircraft engines crown its roof like wings clipped before takeoff. This wacky Frankestein train is known as the Soviet turbojet train — a machine designed to blaze across continents decades before today’s bullet trains.

Although it never made it far beyond the testing phase, for a brief moment in the 1970s, it dared to redefine how fast humanity could move on rails. The Speedy Wagon Laboratory, as it was officially designated by its Soviet engineers, was a product of its time—bold, innovative, and ultimately, impractical. Decades later, its rusting remains…more

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