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Riding the World's Fastest Train @ 500 kph

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the is-it-a-train-or-a-low-flying-plane dept.

angkor writes "Riding the world's fastest train @ 500 kph - some lucky people got a chance to ride on this experimental train. The Japan Times has the story." I like the part where the wheels retract as it starts picking up speed, with the train floating 10cm over the tracks. If only the California high-speed rail system was up and running.

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  1. Re:Please help poor little Timmy! by gazbo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here, I post this at +2 to give you 3 karma. Godbless you Timmah.

  2. Wow, after 9/11 someone marked this as a troll! by jerryasher · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Good moderation here tonight. Yet another monorail quip from the Simpsons gets modded to 4, funny, and my post, a post that referenced the freaking journal of homeland security and how that journal feels about mass transit and terrorism gets modded as a troll.

    Hey, even in Japan with the Aum Shinrikyo killing 5 in the subways, I bet they wonder about terrorism and maglev trains.

    That's okay moderators, moderate the posts you want to see, not the posts that inform.