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Re:Slip Coaches: Back When British Express Trains Detached P... by cup-of-tea on Saturday June 09, 2018 @05:03AM (#17272167)
> However everything else you've claimed is wrong.

Eh? I didn't say anything at all about where the motors were.

You're the second person in this thread to imagine me saying something wrong and call me out on it.

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Re:Slip Coaches: Back When British Express Trains Detached P... by tialaramex on Saturday June 09, 2018 @05:23AM (#17272209)
You wrote:

> Some inner-city rail in Europe is like you describe but not anything high speed (>~100mph) AFAIK.

That's referring to a post which claimed:

> most high speed electric trains have motors in every car because electric motors scale down just fine

The examples you gave were ICE and the Eurostar, which are groups rather than specific classes of high speed train, but in both cases the modern classes have motors in every car, they specifically _disprove_ your claim.

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