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** Almost any "[[wikipedia:Streamliner|Streamliner]]" train counts. Look at the ''[[wikipedia:File:B&O Royal Blue in 1937.jpg|Royal Blue]]'' and tell me that train isn't sexy.
** This Troper considers himself very lucky to have grown up in a city that the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ehs9qP07gQ Norfolk and Western 611] visited regularly during her excursion career in the late 80's/early 90's.
* Pennsylvania Railroad hit the jackpot also in electric locomotives and had been cheeky enough to do it throughout Steam Age and [[
** The PRR was no slouch when it came to steam locomotives either. The road's own Altoona Works constructed 26 [[wikipedia:PRR Q2|class Q2]] 4-cylinder "Duplex" type locomotives in 1944. each developing just short of 8,000 hp. The Q2 still holds the single unit steam locomotive record for power.
* And finally, the German [http://www.transrapid.de/cgi-tdb/en/basics.prg?session=4b9d77df48cf4bd6_229330&a_no=28 Transrapid] maglev. Fastest train, period.
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