They're planning on building a line of these trains from Tokyo to Osaka which will do the 200+ mile trip in 67 minutes!!!
I've traveled several times by high speed rail and they were the most pleasant trips I've ever taken. It's incredibly fun to watch the landscape whiz by from the comfort of a spacious train car with natural lighting instead of a cramped airplane cabin.
Where'd you go? I've traveled on some ICE trains around Central Europe, but they don't get to super high speeds. My favourite trip was from Guangzhou to Guilin—that was a stupid fast HSR that had a speedometer so I could see the zoom zoom.
There were a lot more tunnels than I expected. I'd love to ride one across the American Southwest someday, that particular route is probably less economically viable than most, but idk
Standing on the platform while an express bullet train passes the station is something else. It feels like it's going to run you over, even though the tracks are several meters away from you
just did a little imagination test, put myself on the platform like you said, and even in my head the thing seems like it's gonna run me over lol
TRAIN GOOD! But actually very cool. Does anyone know how maglev track switching works?
Enjoy my friend. You can read more about the switch process here. This is for the Shanghai maglev that's been in commercial operation for over a decade, but I imagine that maglev system here will work similarly.
Ahhh to live in a country with sufficient infrastructure spending. Must be nice...
god seeing these makes me so envious. where's my transcontinental maglev i hate this future
It looks like a train going real fast but its actually several small trains in a row
