The M-497 Experimental Jet Train

16mm film from the Camera of Emery Gulash - In 1966, New York Central Railroad engineer Don Wetzel and his team boarded a specially modified Buddliner rail-car. Bolted to the roof were two GE J47-19 jet engines - they went from Butler, Indiana, to Stryker, Ohio, at almost 184 mph, piloting the experimental vehicle into the record books as the world’s fastest jet-powered had to have both a railroad engineer license and a pilot’s license to be able to operate this jet car...