- Circus Trains: Revolutionizing Travel for Shows
- Before trains, circuses struggled with slow, difficult travel using hundreds of horses, limiting them to small towns and reducing profits. The introduction of circus trains by Barnum and Coup allowed easy travel between large cities, making shows more profitable and enabling growth into larger, better productions. Today, major circuses still rely on trains for transport.
- TGV: France’s High-Speed Electric Train
- The TGV is France’s national high-speed train service, known for setting world speed records for wheeled trains and operating the fastest regular passenger service. It runs on electric power, not petrol, achieving speeds up to 357.2 miles per hour in tests and regularly reaching 200 miles per hour in service.
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