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Re: With respect to trains:
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"Derek Raycraft" <derek.raycraft@sitraka.com> wrote in message
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> > (If you didn't know, currently a maglev line is being built, 31 km long,
> > slated to open next year with a top speed of 430 km/h. Six four-car • trains
> > will operate the line and traverse it in around 7 minutes.)
> Cool, do you have a link to anything on this?
Sure do! So far what I've been doing is just typing in variations on
"Transrapid", "Maglev", "Shanghai" and so forth, but here are some of the
better things I've turned up:
http://www.transrapid.de/ <-- Transrapid International (make sure to check
out the video, it has some footage of the test track at Emsland)
http://www.mvp.de/ <-- The MVP, or Versuchs- und Planungsgesellschaft für
Magnetbahnsysteme - the people who run the 31 km test track in Emsland (auf
deustch)
http://www.project-transrapid.com/ <-- Will open a popup window (then the
browser goes to Siemens page), it has a journal, and excellent technical
descriptions and animations of the trains... very indepth, despite the
annoyance of being a popup window, this is probably where you'll find most
of the informations on the project.
http://www.thyssenkrupp-transrapid.de/ <-- This is the old ThyssenKrupp page
for Transrapid. If you click on Technical Expertise you can view PDF files
of some infos on the Shanghai project and also some history. That is found
at: http://www.thyssenkrupp-transrapid.de/download/SMT_e.pdf , it is really
for sure worth a read.
http://digi.pchome.net/2002/8/20/2_16945.htm <-- Images of one of the
stations, gorgeous pictures taken just a day or two ago. Note that the
centre-platform with gates, and outside platforms without suggest that
trains will load from the centre and guests will detrain onto the outboard
platforms (makes sense - passengers waiting in the middle won't know which
platform the train would come to, so it makes sense to queue them on a
centre-platform, while still having flush loading)
Here are some interesting facts you may not know:
- The power required to levitate the train is in fact less than the power
required by the air conditioning units on the train.
- Trains at the test track in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, have been run
manned up to 550 km/h, creating a world record fly-by of two trains in
oposite directions of over 1000 km/h
- Trains would routinley pass each other at over 800 km/h relative speed on
the Shanghai line
- Old Dominion University will open a Maglev line, they hail it as the
"WORLDS FIRST" and it will open with much fanfare later this year, however,
it has a top speed of abou6 65 km/h, and looks to be total crap (it was
built from a refurbished Otis HOVAIR shuttle vehicle). Please view this
video, and have a good laugh:
http://mail.american-maglev.com/images/video/maglevmotion.wmv Make sure
you have a good listen to the lovely noises that makes.
And then when you'er done viewing that have a look at the Transrapid video
again.
And if you load just ONE thing I have typed out: Please load this.
http://www.calmaglev.org/video/maglev_flyby_2.mov (That is really quite
slow, it is only going 250 km/h in this video clip. Keep in mind the train
can go twice as fast as that.)
I can totally see it now. CNN will be all over the ODU line, hailing it as
so amazing. And then a few months later, the Shanghai line opens, with
trains that go nearly 10 times faster and certainly more elegant than that
buzzing whale-nosed excuse of a blob.
> > b) Is anyone else planing on going up to the opening ceremonies for the
> > opening of the Sheppard Subway?
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> When is the opening? Maybe if the timeing is right.
Suposedly it is now in November about the 23rd or some nonsense like that.
I think I want to go to Shanghai instead though now.
Iain
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