I saw that story - pretty amazing stuff. Every time they bring up HST's
here, people waffle and argue until nothing happens.Too much politics, too
many lobbies. Plus, our existing railroad infrastructure is in fairly poor
shape and mostly at grade level. The tracks between Chicago and New Orleans
are terrible. When we took the City of New Orleans this past November,
there were plenty of stretches that were extremely rough and uneven and we
couldn't have been doing more than 40mph at best.
I would love a 300mph train between Chicago and NYC or LA.
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> A few years ago, the Chinese introduced a German-designed maglev
> train that went from downtown Shanghai to the airport, setting a speed
> record of around 300 MPH. Now, the Japanese have one that goes about 374
> MPH:
>
> http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32391020
>
> In the meantime, the American Acella HST crawls along the
> Washington/Boston corridor as a disgusting average of 65 MPH.
>
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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