Posted April 27, 200718 yr Japan plans to launch Maglev rail service in 2025 Thu Apr 26, 12:30 PM ET TOKYO (AFP) - Japan said Thursday it would aim to launch its first magnetic levitation (Maglev) rail service in 2025 as it starts to phase out the famed Shinkansen "bullet" trains. ADVERTISEMENT The commercial service, which can hit top speeds of more than 500 kilometres (310 miles) per hour, will be run by Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) between Tokyo and the central city of Nagoya. For more information, click below link. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070426/tc_afp/japantransportrail_070426163014
April 27, 200718 yr This might be best posted at: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=7449.0 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
April 27, 200718 yr I have taken the Nozomi a few times between Tokyo and Osaka and it was amazing. Can't imagine anything faster than that. WOW!
April 28, 200718 yr ^ i'll be doing the same next summer -- cant wait! japan -- where the future is happening now. what a place.
April 30, 200718 yr they got that shit in Compton Huh? "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
May 3, 200718 yr I think some of you guys are so educated on public transit you forget most people assume all rail is pretty much the same. I'm sure he's just talking about whatever system they have running through Compton.
May 3, 200718 yr That's the Metro Blue Line, a light-rail transit line running from Long Beach to downtown Los Angeles. It has top speeds of 65 mph and runs on a conventional train track. It is about as similar to maglev as a Toyota Prius is to a Lamborghini Murcielago. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
May 3, 200718 yr Well that would be a great analogy if most people didn't pay way more attention to cars than different forms of rail service.
May 3, 200718 yr A wanna-be ghetto puppy from Compton would get the car analogy. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
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