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Title: Japan’s Maglev Train Hits World Record 366 Miles Per Hour
Source:
Wall Street Journal
URL Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/ ... ecord-590-kilometers-per-hour/
Published: Apr 18, 2015
Author: Jun Hongo
Post Date: 2015-04-18 08:18:57 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 6270
Comments: 40
Central Japan Railway Co. said its magnetic levitation bullet train hit 590 kilometers per hour (366 miles per hour) on Thursday and broke the previous speed record set 12 years ago by the company. The train was operated on a test course constructed in Yamanashi prefecture in central Japan. The previous record of 581 kilometers per hour was set in December 2003. A spokeswoman at the company, known as JR Central, said the new record is likely to be short-lived, since the next test ride on Tuesday might see the train break 600 kilometers per hour. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to talk up Japan’s train prowess on a visit to the U.S. starting April 26. Mr. Abe’s trip includes a stop in California, which is planning a high-speed rail line. JR Central has said it wants to export the maglev technology to the U.S. for a Washington-New York train link—a project Mr. Abe has said Japan would help finance. According to JR Central, the test run was conducted to check the performance of the cars and had 29 technicians aboard. Passengers won’t experience the record-breaking speed even after the line opens for business, which is supposed to happen in 2027. The company has projected that the trains will operate at a maximum speed of 505 kilometers per hour. The Japanese government in October approved the construction of what will be the world’s fastest train line, which will connect Tokyo and Nagoya in about 40 minutes, less than half the time that the shinkansen bullet trains require today. Maglev trains are a “contactless transportation system,” which uses magnetic charge to lift and move the train cars above a guideway. Below is a clip of the same maglev train model being tested at Yamanashi last year. Poster Comment: Yet the GOP/Tea Party remains firmly committed to allowing our transportation infrastructure degrade to noncompetitive, Third World conditions.
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#4. To: Willie Green, VxH, Liberator, redleghunter (#0)
I almost forgot have any of you guys seen the movie Suicide Club/Suicide Circle?? It's a Japanese movie about the stress of everyday life in Japan and ways the people there decide to end it all. Part of the plot is 54 teenage girls all jump at once in front of a speeding train and commit mass suicide. Guess that helps explain some peoples fascination with fast trains.
It's a Japanese movie about the stress of everyday life in Japan and ways the people there decide to end it all. Part of the plot is 54 teenage girls all jump at once in front of a speeding train and commit mass suicide. Guess that helps explain some peoples fascination with fast trains. What a cheery movie! Wow...like lemmings, all these teenage girls actually planned a collective leap in front of an oncoming train? See?? This does indeed proves that fast trains ARE a necessity -- it's not as though these 54 suicidal teenage girls could toss themselves in front of a speeding Corvette and accomplish the same mission. So...now trains can be considered a means to economic AND physical suicide!
They could also be used as a means of mass executions for those who speak out against the new "Fuhrer of the Wacked out Leftard States of North America". Just line them up on the tracks and the drivers won't even be able to see the faces of the victims cause they're going to fast. And I can't wait till all of the "useful idiots" who went along with them get thrown under the bus (train) when their usefulness has come to an end. Cause contrary to what the "useful idiots" think they "ARE NOT" going to share in the spoils of what just got created/ruined.
I don't think anybody here is afraid of trains like they were back then. I think everybody's point is a lot of people used to travel by train back 100 years or so ago, but not today. Currently the only passenger trains are heavily government subsidized and would completely shut down if they weren't, so why waste more taxpayer money for something nobody would really use. We also realize 3rd/4th world countries use trains quite a bit (and are heavily government subsidized) while the elites fly. Something current day proponents (drones) of trains don't realize or care about, they only spout the Fascist/Socialist/Communist bullschitt equality message.
Are you suggesting that the roads that are used for cars should not be subsidized?
Who built them and who takes care of them? Roads are more heavily used that trains ever were and ever will be, (so were horses and wagons for that matter) so why throw exorbitant amounts of money at something only very few will use or give a schitt about? On top of that the view from trains amounts to weeds, fence rows, dilapidated buildings and ROAD CROSSINGS for the most part. BTA the elite can make cars illegal (except for their own limos) and force people to use the trains. Is that what you're suggesting?
Each mile of railway in the US handles 11.5 million ton miles of freight per year on average. Each mile of state and federal highway handles 2.875 million ton miles of freight, and that is if you divide total trucking ton miles by just those roads, and leave of the million of miles of local and arterial highways and streets , without which the trucks would be unable to reach most loading docks. And this while the railroads pay property tax on their ROW, while trucking benefits from cross subsidization of ROW by the automobile user. Even with government policy that tips the scales against them America's railroads beat the high when it comes to handling freight, mile per mile, while requiring far less oil to do so.
The efficacy of "freight" is one story and benefit of rail... But the reason to build future rail is supposedly to help relieve passenger transportation. Don't know that a California-to-Vegas rail system is a priority when it's their intrastate traffic (and invasion of millions of Mexican illegals) that's the real problem there.
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#6. To: CZ82, Willie Green, redleghunter (#4)
Have any of you guys seen the movie Suicide Club/Suicide Circle??
#10. To: Liberator (#6)
This does indeed proves that fast trains ARE a necessity
#12. To: CZ82 (#10)
They could also be used as a means of mass executions
#13. To: A Pole (#12)
#14. To: CZ82 (#13)
#15. To: A Pole (#14)
#21. To: CZ82 (#15)
Roads are more heavily used that trains ever were and ever will be...
#29. To: nativist nationalist (#21)
Even with government policy that tips the scales against them America's railroads beat the high when it comes to handling freight, mile per mile, while requiring far less oil to do so.
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