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Is it something like Do'Do' or D'D'? :) -- 83.100.0.21 ( talk) 12:03, 16 June 2008 (UTC) reply

That brick shaped heap of Soviet garbage could never get anywhere near the world diesel speed record. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.24.72.211 ( talk) 15:04, 23 March 2009 (UTC) reply

Brick shaped heap of Soviet garbage, you said? He-he: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWDdNe_zx5A&feature=player_embedded —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.39.13.80 ( talk) 20:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC) reply

Another video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwYXjxXFha0&feature=player_embedded —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.39.13.80 ( talk) 20:44, 9 April 2009 (UTC) reply

Light-engine doesn't count. Engines only exist to pull trains, so the engine has to be pulling at least a three-coach train, like the British HST in 1987, which holds the actual record for diesel traction at 148mph. Khamba Tendal ( talk) 17:35, 25 August 2016 (UTC) reply