PUT SOME SALMON STRIPES ON IT. The French roll out something that looks like a cross between a Space Shuttle and an Electroliner.

ALSTOM’s Automotrice Grande Vitesse (AGV) will supplant the famed TGV on France’s highest-speed electrified rail lines, traveling at speeds up to 360km/h (224mph), and powered not by locomotives but by under-floor mounted traction motors.

Under-floor traction motors, Westinghouse-Nuttall drive, cut in the field shunts, put some bigger wheels on it? Hey, maybe they could sell a Mellow-tang cheese sandwich.

Ryan Road, late winter, 1959.