Check out this uber-fast mag-lev train they've made now. 501 KMH = 310 mph

http://video.google.com/google...70903

They need a few of these in North America.

Beats takin the bus

 

god dayamn!! judging by how fast it was climbing in speed all the way up to 500 km/h it could go alot faster.

a slew of those in North America would be nice

 

sick

werent they supposed to be building on of those (or similar) from like Boston to DC?

 

Looks like fun

 

They need one of those from Vegas to L.A; hell even D.C. to NY would be nice as well. Of course the money to build one of those would be insane.

 

wtf? lol...what does it run in the quarter mile?

 

daaaaaaaaamn thats fast!!!

i would never get late... for anything

 

that thing is as fast as air plane.

fastest transportation on the road for sure . damn

 

actually airplanes go a tad bit faster

 

Thats bad ***...mass ground transporation in the US = teh joke

 

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yea like stated planes are a bit faster.......... the one that took me from detroit to hawaii was cruising at like 550mph on the way and like over 700mph on the way back (against the rotation of the earth so ground speed is faster)

 

sweet damn that was fast. I mean I was just on a train from NJ to NC and it took 12 hours. That sucker would have done that in like 3.

 

NY to LA would be the hot fyre!

 

they actually proposed something like this from LA to LV and vise versa, had maps and prototypes all drawn up and everything... not sure what happened to this but i remember seeing soemthing on FOX NEWS awhile back on it

 

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When it takes twice as long as a flight?

 

I met the creator of the mag train. MY gf's dad works for Fonar imaging (MRI company famous for their stand up MRI machine) and introduced me a while back. There's a company I can't remember the name of that has figured out a way to manufacture the train and rails nearly 75% cheaper than their Japanese and German counterparts.

May be some stock info in the future

 

The actual concept of that train is very very simple.

All it is is a series of magnets that "ramp" (power) up in sequence to pull the train along. The train and rail are on opposite poles and as these magnets ramp up the force of them pulls the train to the next magnet as the original magnet ramps down.

 

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Maybe in ATL, NYC mass transit &gt; ***

We get like 10 million riders a day

 

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I guess that might be true, I have never seen NYC. Here in Atl is a total POS with our trains not going anywhere you want. There are 4 major counties in metro Atlanta and only one of them has trains.

 

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Even though this pic is cutting off the lower half of Manhattan and Brooklyn you get the idea. It's retarded owning a caR in NYC.



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Damn it! I miss that smell of homeless urine and those rats the size of cats.

 

Thats cool I want to ride in a train like that. hmmm 313mph fun.
But the world fastest train in the TGV is holds the world's record for speed on rails of 515.3 km/h (322 mph).

 

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Yeah, I dated a girl back in college that made that trip several times. I think you can drive it in about eight hours

 

Looks fun. I wonder if theres much of a magnetic pull if you're standing near the tracks when it goes by.

 

One from L.A. to N.Y. that makes stops in major cities inbetween would be nice.