America’s Failed High Speed Tilting Train - The UAC Turbotrain

Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: Start your free trial TODAY so you can watch Trains -2 Centuries of Innovation about France’s world leading railways and the technology they developed to create them, and the rest of MagellanTV’s science collection: It was supposed to lead the US and Canada into a new high speed railway future but the UAC Turbotrain ended up being scrapped after just years in the US and in both countries they failed to deliver the speeds they were designed to run at and unlike other countries it showed you need more than just fast trains to have a high speed rail service. This video is sponsored by MagellanTV Written, Researched and Presented by Paul Shillito Images and Footage : UAC, Sikorsky, George E.O. Lilley, Virginia Crouse, Amtrack, Canadian National Railwaways. And as always a big thank you also goes out to all our Patreons :-) Ἐριχθόνιος JL Abrakodabra Kobra / 25% Ai Alipasha Sadri Alistair Brown Andrew Gaess Andrew SMITH Brian Kelly Cameron Elliot Carl Soderstrom Charles Thacker ChasingSol Collin Copfer Dom Riccobene Dragoncorps Etienne Dechamps Florian Muller George Bishop II Henning Bitsch Henri Saussure inunotaisho james t early Jesse Postier Jim Early Johan Rombaut john edwards Jonathan Merage Jonathan Travers Joshua Rea - Dawn Aerospace Ken Schwarz L D László Antal Lawrence Brennan Lorne Diebel Pyloric SHAMIR stefan hufenbach Steve J - LakeCountySpacePort Tawn Kramer Tomasz Leszczyński Vincent Will Lowe Music from the Youtube library Just Dance by Patrick Patrikios Float by Emily A. Sprauge