Forum - View topicINTEREST: Japan's Maglev Train Breaks World Record at 366 mph
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Kadmos1
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Rail Wars! would be happy at such a fast train.
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HayateGekkou
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I didn't think a train could get cooler than the Shinkansen...I was wrong.
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antasad
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from what anime is the thumbnail?
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Sakurazuka_Reika
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That's... amazing...
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Hoppy800
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I can see all the foreigners going on a train like that to the Olympics and being amazed as hell at how fast they got there.
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Mr. Oshawott
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366 miles per hour...
People would be falling over at a speed this high and even then this is only partial taste of the Maglev's potential! |
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Kadmos1
Posts: 13552 Location: In Phoenix but has an 85308 ZIP |
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Speaking of trains, how about another Rail Wars! season?
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Paulo27
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TheTsunami
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Correct. The author added a little comment in there to coincide with it also. "With those kinds of speeds, maybe Takaki could have met Akari on time?" |
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partially
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Not really. They always ramp up the speed slow, so you don't get a feeling of acceleration. Imagine a plane mid-flight and that is what a fast maglev feels the entire journey, essentially normal. Given the maglevs are always also fairly high elevated, there is nothing particularly close to the train to give a huge feeling of speed. |
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DJStarstryker
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To give people an idea of how fast this is, you can already get to Nagoya/Osaka/Kyoto from Tokyo faster on the shinkansen than you can with a plane (mainly because no security to go through and stations to catch shinkansen are more convenient to get to than the airports). Once the Maglevs start running, there will NEVER be a time that plane is faster than the train for going Tokyo <--> Nagoya/Osaka/Kyoto. You'd have to go a farther distance for the plane to be faster.
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walw6pK4Alo
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NEVER HAPPENING We only have the Acela, and it mostly goes a piddly speed for most of it's run and then maybe 140-150mph for a short stretch. No one wants to fund the building of HSR, and for most of American travel it's just easier and faster to fly.
Yeah, you could just fly and get there much quicker (including security and travel to and from airports), and probably cheaper. I can fly to NYC from Miami in less time. As for the 5cm/s, it wasn't the speed of his travel but the snow causing delays. |
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Spotlesseden
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@ walw6pK4Alo
It said, it could come to US, not East Coast. Sorry, but all your example are bad because new technology or new Japanese stuffs normally come to or come from California and west coast first. And Snow won't rarely happen in CA. There are many proposed Maglev projects, they just don't have enough funds to do it. http://canv-maglev.com/ |
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Kadmos1
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Riding in such a fast train would make the top speed of a Bugatti Veyron seem slow.
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unready
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Never is a long time, but there are more problems than cost. Maglev trains would need new tracks. New tracks on old runs are unlikely because it would probably require ripping up old tracks, since the rights of way are probably already at maximum multiple tracking. That means decreasing existing tracking to lay incompatible tracking. That means less freight capacity. Railroads make their money on freight, not on people, so less freight capacity means less revenue. Higher cost with lower return isn't a good combination. New tracks on new runs have environmental impact. More importantly, the impact is different from the impact that a train could reduce. Less fuel for airplanes, etc., is good, but the replacement impact would be track laid through (possibly protected) wilderness areas. There's precedent. CA wanted to build wind farms for power generation. Environmentalists loved reducing carbon output from fossil plants, but didn't want to allow new power lines to connect the wind farms to the grid. New tracks would probably also mean new rights of way. The courts would be snarled with eminent domain cases until meglevs would be obsolete. It was so much easier for the Federal government just to let the railroad companies do what they wanted and then have Clint Eastwood make movies about it 100 years later. |
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