This is the new livery (named Vigirail) of the French high speed train IRIS 320 who test and validate tracks, the power and catenary and all the communication and signal systems. This trainset is dedicated for testing all high speed lines and can run up to 320 Kph in testing mode ! You can see on the the first car a roof window to observe the catenary and pantograph movements, on the lastest cars, all the antennas are for testing communication between embeded systems with others (GSM-Rail, analog radio,...) along the tracks...
Pictures of French high speed conquest... With all kind of locomotives, trains and infrastructures that participated to improve rail speed and makes the best world records.