Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the rest of the world builds new ...
by innocenat on Sunday December 23, 2018 @12:24AM
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And China pretty much stopped running train at 350km/h.
Steel-on-steel rail is realistically limited to top service speed of 320km/h, maybe 360 at most. The maintenance is just too high when you increase speed beyond that. Newer Japanese Shinkansen line only operate at 260km/h, for example.
Steel-on-steel rail is realistically limited to top service speed of 320km/h, maybe 360 at most. The maintenance is just too high when you increase speed beyond that. Newer Japanese Shinkansen line only operate at 260km/h, for example.