Santa Fe X 1 Jet Powered Train Car Test Run

Now that a garden train layout!!!  

That's pretty cool, but it looks more like a ducted fan than a jet.

Oh man!  I love it when other people have fun!  It means there is so m uch more out there for me, too.

THAT is a very cool idea.  

EDIT: Wow.  I am shocked.  Went to buy a ducted fan to make my own (too cool not too).  

Good news: they don't cost much

Band news: they use 14-18 amps at 14V DC!!!! Wow.  

It will NEVER get off the ground. 

I'd like to see it if it did!

That was cool. I was waiting for it to fly off the tracks.

A simple spoiler would allow it to do either stay on the track or get off.  And yes, I also thought that it wasn't a jet, just a prop driven train car.  Also notice that it was slower when the video was from behind?  That's because to work it needed to push against something, mostly air.  But when the coupled car was on the rear, the air stream was basically pushing against itself.  Like trying to move a car while sitting in said car pushing on the dash.

But even with that in mind (Which I have to since I'm a mechanical engineer.), it sure looked like fun, and I want to try it!

That was cool. I was waiting for it to fly off the tracks.

Me too. That's fun, loved it...

NOT interested - did you see that it's TWO RAIL?! Lacks any authenticity.

But if you want you can make one out of a Red Bull can.

That is the coolest thing I've seen in a while!! Looks like a new project just made the list!

Now that's cool.

Next project..........

I cab totally see mounting some Estes motors to the back of a dummy.

Good thought.....I was wondering if the old Jetex model motors were still around and found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetex  There were some model glider designs (way back when) that had a Jetex rocket in the tail for hand-held launching. The Rapier jet seems to have disappeared too.

For further fun in the privacy of your own home, just Google "miniature pulse jet" and find a sacrificial flatcar............