19 days ago by Robert Cruickshank

The plan to connect Anaheim to Las Vegas with a maglev system appears to be dead as its chief backer, the Southern California Association of Governments, has decided to abandon it in its new transportation plan. Dug Begley of the Press-Enterprise explains the story: Transportation planners once drea ...

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39 days ago by innovation

Making it one of the fastest trains ever designed for commercial passenger use China’s state press agency, Xinhua, reports that the country’s largest rail vehicle maker has debuted a six-car train more than twice as powerful and 200 km/h (124 mph) faster than the high-speed models currently in servi ...

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42 days ago by Ray Walters

For those of you business people who commute regularly by train, there is word from China about a new engine that is shattering speed records and promising to get you to your destination in considerably less time. Pictured above is the modified CRH-380A train, built by Sifang Locomotive & Rolling St ...

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45 days ago by Ellie

Way back when I began my travels in August (I have been floating around SE Asia for about a half a year, life could be worse) I had a twelve hour layover in Shanghai, China. I had never been to any part of China and visa's for American's are hard to get for China as well as expensive (around 250 USD ...

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46 days ago by Pier

La RSI Corp Ltd., azienda cinese produttrice di treni, ha presentato un nuovo treno ad altissima velocità che sarà provato nel fine settimana e raggiungerà l’incredibile velocità di circa 500 Continua

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46 days ago by Brit Liggett

Despite a year plagued by crashes and money problems, the Chinese government announced that they ran the first test run of their 310 mile per hour maglev train over the weekend. The government had planned to shut down 80% of new construction on their ambitious project back in July after a devastatin ...

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47 days ago by Rahmi Aydemir

Prof. Dr. Ekrem Yanmaz Türkiye'de ilk maglev trenlerinin prototipini üretti. Kendisiyle yaptığımız röportajda aynı zamanda bu sistemlerin çalışma prensiplerine dair akademik bilgiler de aldık. Çin başta olmak üzere Japonya ve Almanya'nın...

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50 days ago by Geotek

An underground waterfalls inside a gold mine. Crusier Future gold mines and mines in general haven’t changed much except incrementally in more then a century, a situation that has to change as mines keep getting deeper and hotter. Theoretically it is possible to reach depths of 33,000 feet using exi ...

Gold, Mining and Prospecting - goldminingandprospecting.blogspot.com · 1 reference

55 days ago by dunwoodynow

American Maglev Technology is preparing a proposal for a 22-mile line, costing $400 million to $500 million.

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68 days ago by imblacknitravel

Seventh in a series Shanghai maglev train preparing to leave for Pudong Intl Airport — ©Derrick Neill | Dreamstime.com For railroad enthusiasts, or folks who just like getting from Point A to Point B faster than anybody else in the world, the Shanghai Maglev Train is the ultimate E-ticket ride. Shan ...

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