When railroad engineer Don Wetzel and his colleagues with the now defunct New York Central Railroad decided to build a high-speed train in the 1960s, they salvaged a pair of GE jet engines from an Air Force bomber and attached them to the roof of a stock commuter car. On July 23, 1966, Wetzel put on a white pilot’s helmet and sped down a straight section of Ohio tracks at 183 miles per hour. The train set a world record for self-propelled trains and got recognized by Guinness World Records. The rail speed record still stands in the U.S., but jet train was scrapped long ago. However, LEGO “virtuoso” Aleksander Stein recently recreated the vehicle from LEGO bricks. To mark the occasion, GE Reports managing editor Tomas Kellner talked to Wetzel, who is 82, about his record-breaking ride, jet-powered snow blowers, and “LEGOmaniacs.”