Air Cushioned Bullet trains cannot derail

From: Lance
Date: 12 Aug 2002
Time: 23:46:57
Remote Name: 66.82.48.1

Comments

Well it has been a hell of a bad month for the Railroad with de-railments and the Amtrak problem with the tracks in Washington. Now we see CA wanting to build more modern railways? Yah right and exactly whose money are you going to build it with since your BART Trains in SF are nearly bankrupt and your Red, Blue and MetroRail lines are complete disasters economically? http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2002/08/12/editorial3.html . Here is what the Sierra Club says; http://lomaprieta.sierraclub.org/HighSpeedRail.html and where as I concur with such ideas, what about all the other projects which did not work and costs billions of dollars? And even with all the technology and testing to provide safety, will it be any safer? http://www.fra.dot.gov/rdv30/facilities/facilities_projects.htm In Japan their trains are fast and safe, but they live on an island too. A 200 mile per hour train from Phoenix to El Paso or LA to Las Vegas has advantages and should not be to awfully difficult although a high speed train fro Seattle to Chicago or Salt Lake to Denver now that I would like to see? But the only reason I am skeptical is because the Germans are said to be some of the best engineers in the world, at least they are said to be. But even they can not prevent terrible tragedies. http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9806/03/germany.train.crash.pm/ Now the Amtrak derailment killed no one, but really screwed up freight deliveries in Washington for CW and grocery stores and commuters. But at slow speeds no one dies. In Aircraft usually everyone bites the big one. It seems everyone wants a high speed rail; http://www.state.in.us/dot/modetrans/train/page3.html , I do, but it should ride on a cushion of air in a cradle not on a track with like Japanese style trains. Also it should be free from other use so we need no rail controllers like these guys; Railroad Controllers play God with real trains. http://jacksonville.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2002/08/12/story7.html and there is a shortage of these experts since they have to deal in the large bureaucracy of the Railroad. Train travel competes against other transportation methods, is it really that great? http://birmingham.bizjournals.com/birmingham/stories/2002/08/12/editorial2.html . -------- Although I am not in favor of this design, we need to look at all possibilities. http://www.enn.com/enn-features-archive/2000/07/07162000/trains_12145.asp . maybe more like this in an inverted “V” track http://future.newsday.com/10/fmon1025.htm or even better like this one. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/12/1219_wiremagtrains.html using magnetics or even this one http://www.sdrm.org/history/sda/spbulletin/1975.html And then there are the newer versions of the idea, some not hypothetical at all, they actually work you know? http://www.geocities.com/nastywik/trains.html . This would be my first choice actually and with mountain ranges there is no problem because there is no weight and little energy is needed to move it and once it gets going whooooyaaaa. What is best for WashGuys is the faster they go the more friggin bugs they will hit and the more we can charge to wash them?

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