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POPSJapan Starts to Shop Its Bullet Train Technology The experimental MLX01 maglev is the world’s fastest train. But it is confined to a 12-mile track. And like the train itself, its technology has been trapped in Japan. Now, though, Japan wants to begin exporting its expertise in high-speed rail.
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POPSVegas - Disneyland $12B High-Speed Rail To Have Futuristic Magnetic Levitation Trains that zoom on an air cushions created by powerful magnets instead of wheels is more absurd than Obama’s $11 billion personal fleet of 28 helicopters. They could begin the first phase of the project, linking Anaheim and Las Vegas with local airports, within the next 18 months. The estimated completion cost is about $12 billion.
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POPSTrans-Atlantic MagLev -- A Magnetically Levitated Vacuum Tube Train A Maglev train floats about 10mm above the guidway on a magnetic field and is propelled by the guidway itself rather than an onboard engine by changing magnetic fields. An exotic proposal based upon this principle is the Trans Atlantic vactrain: a Maglev train in a long near-vacuum tube with speeds that allow less than one hour travel times between New York and London.
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POPSMag Lev Train Slick new train idea may be the beginnings of fast trans-atlantic travel.
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