Maglev

[MiloMorai]

Magnetic levitation transport, or maglev, is a form of transportation that suspends, guides and propels vehicles (especially trains) via electromagnetic force. This method can be faster than wheeled mass transit systems, potentially reaching velocities comparable to turboprop and jet aircraft (500km/h).

Given time, will maglev trains  replace short haul a/c?

[john9001]

of course they will, the big problem is finding a place to put them , the most obvious place is the median of the interstate highways.

[68ROX]

This is the FINEST in world technology, invented by Komrade Georgi Maglev, USSR!

This super-sophisticated, cutting edge, power conserving, environmentally clean and safe mode of transportation is only possible because the USSR won WWII SINGLE-HANDEDLY!

Had you gotten off of your Impearialstic, Capitalistic, running dog butts and done somthing between 1939 and 1945, maybe one of YOUR scientists could have achieved what ONLY the USSR and Komrade MAGLEV have done!

What Komrade Maglev has achieved puts us back to the developmental days of Sputnik & Yuri Gurgarin!

You would not have air to breathe, water to drink, or a pot to excrete in without US(SR)!



Komrade 68ROX

[john9001]

are you sure? i thought stalin sent Komrade Maglev to a gulag.

[68ROX]

Originally posted by john9001
are you sure? i thought stalin sent Komrade Maglev to a gulag.

NO!

Komrade MAGLEV was NEVER sent to the gulag because they NEVER EXISTED!  Ask KOMRADE BORODO!  Even Alexandir Szholtiznitzen admitted he was smoking 4 pounds of crack, meth and hippie lettuce a DAY when he wrote GULAG Archipeligo!

It was a figment of everyone's imagination (especially those who were worked and starved to death in Soviet Camps) and those people who even talked about it have been dealt with!

PLEASE do NOT downplay the achievments of Komrade MAGLEV, or the SOVIET Peoples ever again!

Simply enjoy your rides on his invention of Soviet Scientific Superiority, and condsider it a Soviet Disneyland.

BTW:  GO Cinncinnatti!  GO REDS!  LOVE those REDS!

Signed,

KOBA

(aka Komrade 68ROX)

[indy007]

The California-Nevada Interstate Maglev project is proposing the construction of a 269-mile Maglev train line from Las Vegas, Nevada to Anaheim, California. The first 40-mile segment received $45 million in 2005 for the planning phase. This segment would run from Las Vegas to Primm, Nevada, with proposed service to the new Las Vegas Airport.

The Baltimore-Washington D.C. Maglev project is a proposal from the United States cities of Baltimore, Maryland and Washington D.C. to build a 39.8 mile (64 km) maglev train system between their respective central business districts. The maglev was originally intended to help Baltimore and Washington win the bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics. The maglev would connect Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and the two cities.

It's just amazing how fast these things area. The JR-Maglev in Japan has cleared 350mph.

[Rolex]

Hi MiloMorai,

We had a classic O'Club discussion about this same topic a few years ago; the economic (construction and development jobs, etc.) and other benefits to the US transportation infrastructure. The general O'Club consensus was that trains are for liberal, girly men, then I think it evolved into a Euro-bashing gun thread.

Good luck, though.

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by john9001
of course they will, the big problem is finding a place to put them , the most obvious place is the median of the interstate highways.

The portion of the I-15 that runs through San Diego has something like that installed in the car pool lanes.  Cal Trans used to do periodic testing to see if Maglev type system can be used on highways.  Was cool seeing a line of 50 cars all traveling at 75mph with only 5 feet seperation and the drivers just sitting there along for the ride.


ack-ack

[68ROX]

Our rail system has been a bust since the 60's.

It would be GREAT to see a system like this in place, especially if it were half the price of current US rail fares.

The airlines would fight it tooth and nail, though!

68ROX

[Angry Samoan]

Originally posted by MiloMorai
Magnetic levitation transport, or maglev, is a form of transportation that suspends, guides and propels vehicles (especially trains) via electromagnetic force. This method can be faster than wheeled mass transit systems, potentially reaching velocities comparable to turboprop and jet aircraft (500km/h).

Given time, will maglev trains  replace short haul a/c?

I see greater cost per Mile/Kilometer of track installed and maintained.

[mosgood]

Originally posted by Rolex
Hi MiloMorai,

We had a classic O'Club discussion about this same topic a few years ago; the economic (construction and development jobs, etc.) and other benefits to the US transportation infrastructure. The general O'Club consensus was that trains are for liberal, girly men, then I think it evolved into a Euro-bashing gun thread.

Good luck, though.

Com'on... not here!

[Mickey1992]

Ohio has been talking for years about a high-speed (110MPH) rail link between Cleveland-Columbus-Cincinnati.  The existing rail is there, they just need to either double-track it or figure out a way to co-exist with the existing freight traffic (as well as build the stations and upgrade the road).

While it would be cool, I can't imagine them building a new, dedicated, duplicate maglev line.