Electric Train Speed Record 320 MPH

[Hot Foot]

No way I would commute on this bad ass train, just an accident looking for a place to happen IMO.

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[Infiniti514]

you're a little late to the party


350 mph ; 25,000 horsepower

[GZire]

Damn HF, you are late on the bandwagon.

[mantisG35]

this is the fastest train on traditional railroad. the fastest train in the world is the japanese, 500 mph on magnetic field rail

[Hot Foot]

Sorry about that!

[GZire]

Originally Posted by mantisG35

this is the fastest train on traditional railroad. the fastest train in the world is the japanese, 500 mph on magnetic field rail

Are you certain that's not kilometers per hour? 500 mph on the ground is honkingly fast.

[Infiniti514]

the Maglev hit a top speed of 363mph

[mantisG35]

Originally Posted by GZire

Are you certain that's not kilometers per hour? 500 mph on the ground is honkingly fast.

it's 800 km/h. again those are floating on magnetic fields. they're crazy and surprisingly didnt have much accidents

edit: seems ur right, what i heard is wrong according to this: Maglev train - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[msb3079]

not only are you late on the subject, but late on the records.... haha

[GZire]

Originally Posted by mantisG35

it's 800 km/h. again those are floating on magnetic fields. they're crazy and surprisingly didnt have much accidents

edit: seems ur right, what i heard is wrong according to this: Maglev train - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Regardless of 500 mph or 300 mph that's still incredibly fast. It's difficult and expensive to maintain aircraft, but to make sure thousands of miles of tracks are in a condition to be used during all weather conditions is quite a difficult feat. I'm not sure it would be an advisable venture to back.

[mantisG35]

man i had to take the train in cali from OC to santa barbara. that thing was the slowest thing on earth. any car on the inside roads was much faster than us, i think we were going like 35-50 mph. it just sucked! i thought it does like 85 or something

[chenga]

Amtrak is ridiculously slow. They have "new" sections in the Midwest that reach 90mph in small bursts, but the tracks are pretty bad quality so they can't run top speed very often.

For OC->SB until you clear LA, you won't be allowed to go very fast anyway since it's pretty urban. Then going along the coast, people with expensive houses probably complain about the noise so the trains may not be allowed to run very fast there either, LoL.

[mantisG35]

ur probably right... it's the same as driving there except you dont have to deal with traffic... the worse is Metrolink down in socal... man that thing breaks down like on every trip!