5 Train Concepts That Are Just Really Bad Ideas | History in the Dark

Ideas can be very good. They can also be very, VERY terrible. With trains, like anything, both have occurred at one point or another and sometimes the bad ones get further than they should.

0:00 - Intro
1:34 - Gilderfluke's Perfected Locomotive
4:17 - Mason Bogie Locomotives
6:44 - Baldwin Quadruplex Proposal
9:22 - Hyperloop
13:03 - Lithium Battery Locomotives

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop
https://www.wired.com/story/battery-p...

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