Weirdest High-Speed Trains Ever Made Explained

The weirdest high-speed trains ever built — from a Japanese bullet train that nobody has ever ridden to a jet-powered French hovertrain whose abandoned concrete track still crosses the countryside today. This video breaks down 9 of the strangest high-speed trains in rail history, ranked from operational marvels to designs so radical the world quietly forgot them.Some of these trains still run today. Others made their crews violently ill. And one of them broke the world speed record in fifteen seconds and never did it again. Every entry is a real train — some famous, some almost forgotten.Trains featured in this video: 00:00 - Doctor Yellow (Shinkansen 923) 01:02 - The Vomit Comet (British APT) 02:04 - The Reaper (German Transrapid) 03:12 - The Racer (TGV V150) 04:01 - The Psychic (Shanghai Maglev) 05:01 - The Widowmaker (Italian ETR 450) 06:00 - The Cruiser (Chinese CR450) 06:55 - The Sub-Zero (Chuo Shinkansen L0) 07:57 - The Jetpack (French Aérotrain) If you love strange machines, engineering oddities, and forgotten transport history, subscribe to Odd Machines for a new video every week.Which of these trains would you actually want to ride? Drop it in the comments. weirdest trains ever built, unusual trains, experimental trains, bizarre trains, strange trains in history, futuristic trains that failed, train inventions, railway experiments, forgotten trains, rail transport history