Transportation Industry

A 340-mph maglev train

Railway Age, Jan, 1997

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> A 340-MPH MAGLEV TRAIN, a four-car prototype, is scheduled to be tested late in 1997 on the newly-opened, 26-mile Yamanashi test line south-west of Tokyo. The test line has several different types of guideway and turnout switches, plus a tunnel entrance hood structure to prevent sonic booms. If all goes as planned, the test line will form part of the Chuo Shinkansen superconducting maglev line linking Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka at 310-mph speeds starting soon after 2000.

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