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Money Problems May Derail First U.S. MagLev Train
PSaltyDS writes "The Virginian Pilot is reporting on the trials and tribulations of what was supposed to be the first MagLev train in regular use in the U.S. The MagLev Project was to cover a portion of the Old Dominion University campus, and start service in 2002, but after $14 million spent, it has yet to carry a single passenger. In the article, several engineering types seem to say the same thing, something like 'A great idea that is just too hard to do without an unlimited budget.' Is a maglev train an impractical fantasy like the personal flying car?"
An economy.
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
What do the Japanese have that the US does not
bouncey pixelated boobies?
A monorail! MONORAIL? Yes! A monorail!
Lyle Lanley: Well, sir, there's nothing on earth like a genuine, Bona fide, Electrified, Six-car Monorail!
What'd I say?
Ned Flanders: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: What's it called?
Patty+Selma: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: That's right! Monorail!
[crowd chants `Monorail' softly and rhythmically]
Miss Hoover: I hear those things are awfully loud...
Lyle Lanley: It glides as softly as a cloud.
Apu: Is there a chance the track could bend?
Lyle Lanley: Not on your life, my Hindu friend.
Barney: What about us brain-dead slobs?
Lyle Lanley: You'll be given cushy jobs.
Abe: Were you sent here by the devil?
Lyle Lanley: No, good sir, I'm on the level.
Wiggum: The ring came off my pudding can.
Lyle Lanley: Take my pen knife, my good man.
I swear it's Springfield's only choice...
Throw up your hands and raise your voice!
All: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: What's it called?
All: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: Once again...
All: Monorail!
Marge: But Main Street's still all cracked and broken...
Bart: Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken!
All: Monorail!
Monorail!
Monorail!
Monorail!
Homer: Mono... D'oh!
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Yes, yes it is. Someone better go tell the Japanese that their train doesn't exist...
Passenger trains my be unpopular but freight trains currently carry a large portion of the goods in the USA.
They are not going anywhere.
Did some kid put a penny on the track?
You were 80% angel, 10% demon. The rest was hard to explain. - Over The Rhine
"Math in a song is good."-Linford
Because they've been building useless things like MagLev trains.
But it is a Japanese crapper, it plays music and has a motorised seat.
What do the Japanese have that the US does not, to allow them to create a MagLev?
;-)
Tiny Japanese people...easier to lift with magnets
You can't take the sky from me...
You do realise that lifting of a train by magnetism does not require
I don't know. Those Sumo wreslters look like they could hide a MagLev train in their ass.
And believe me, it's entirely fair to generalize about an entire population based on its wrestlers.
Just look at the US and the WWF.
Imagine being vaporized when your train derails at ludicris speed.