Re:Chinese airline completes maiden passenger flight with do...
by LargoLasskhyfv on Friday January 01, 2021 @06:51PM
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About Christmas the news of the rollout of a bullet freight train made the rounds. At 350kph - km/h or about 217mph.
Looked only slightly modified from their passenger trains.
One large sliding door in the middle of each car, with a folding out ramp, and where usually the passenger seats were, there is now something like in freight planes, where standardised freight containers easily slide into their positions via slots in the ground and rolls. Automatically!
Looked only slightly modified from their passenger trains. One large sliding door in the middle of each car, with a folding out ramp, and where usually the passenger seats were, there is now something like in freight planes, where standardised freight containers easily slide into their positions via slots in the ground and rolls. Automatically!
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-12/24/c_139615873.htm (contains short video showing operations)
That is a real FIRST!
(Yah, Yah! color me impressed. But it IS impressive!)