Name? - The Blue Quasar: 84 32.5XX
N 41° 28.908 W 084° 32.583
16T E 705129 N 4595157
Provided by my good friend 8Nuts Mother Goose as part of a joint project to create more "What's in a name?" Waymarks! Come see where I might be.
Waymark Code: WM1YJ3
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 08/04/2007
Views: 84
Way to go Ohio! Boy I bet you just never tire of hearing that LOL.
According to a plaque near this location {original text can be found at The Ohio Channel - Remarkable Ohio}
In 1966 the New York Central Railroad Company (A.E. Perlman, President) proposed a test of existing rail passenger equipment to determine the feasibility of operating high-speed passenger service between cities up to 300 miles apart. The site chosen for the test was near Bryan, Ohio on the longest multiple track straight railroad line in the world. This sixty-seven mile straight trackage from Toledo, Ohio to Butler, Indiana was originally constructed by the Northern Indiana Railroad Company of Ohio incorporated March 3, 1851. On July 23, 1966 the New York Central Technical Research Department ran their Budd RDC-3 passenger car number M-497 fully instrumented for stress analysis, and propelled by two roof-mounted jet aircraft engines. The speed of 183.85 miles per hour was attained, the highest recorded on a railroad in North America at that time and to this day.
So this seems like a great spot for me. Quasy Train Hahahahahah.. cue the Randy Rhodes guitar...
Big thanks to 8Nuts Mother Goose for providing the required data to make this Waymark possible.
Hope you enjoy the Waymark Visit!
The Blue Quasar