In 1966, engineers strapped two B-58 Hustler bomber engines to a commuter railcar—and the M-497 Black Beetle was born. Hitting 183 mph, it became the fastest train ever to run in North America, a ...
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.