Ho hum. Wake me when we get there. My company builds trains that will do almost 575 KMH (360 MPH).
Posted on 10/21/2009 3:38:24 AM PDT by Willie Green
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—As an engineer pulls the throttle, villagers track side gawk at the bullet-shaped train as it gathers speed. Soon, forests and wooden shacks are a blur as a dashboard display reads 250 kilometers an hour (155 miles per hour).
Ten years in the making, Russia's state-owned railway is testing eight aerodynamic trains that in December will rush travelers from here to Moscow in less than four hours. With fancy kitchens and leather seats in first class, the Sapsans (Russian for peregrine falcons) mark a change in Russia's egalitarian rail tradition.
More broadly, though, Russia's new trains mirror a global push in high-speed rail that spans from China to the U.S., an effort that is buffering Siemens AG, Hitachi Ltd., Bombardier Inc. and other industrial giants against the economic slump.
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... GE wants to sell Amtrak more engines that go as fast as 123 mph, replacing "20-year-old locomotive clunkers," says Stephan Koller, a spokesman for GE Transportation...
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Ho hum. Wake me when we get there. My company builds trains that will do almost 575 KMH (360 MPH).
LOL!
I really would like to see a bullet train here. Flying is expensive and cumbersome while driving is horrific in some places.
Give me a bullet train and I’ll take it anyday!
The only thing that worries me about such high-speed trains is keeping people, animals, cars etc off the tracks. At that speed, you would barely see something before you hit it.
Yeah, nothing like massive taxpayer subsidies to make a stock price go up, and massive goobermint regulation, red tape and envirobullcrap to make another go down.
The heck with the free market and personal choice !
Marching backward into the future !
The heck with the free market and personal choice !
The Wall Street Investment Bankers obviously don't believe in the free market.
Why should anybody else?
If the Federal Reserve Banks believed in a Free Market, they’d voluntarily disband and start competing against each other.
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