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Topic	China laying tracks for 1,000 km/h trains (around 650 miles/h)
s0nicfan 10/03/19 6:44:16 PM #15:	Bio1590 posted... High speed rail needs to be a thing in North America so, so bad. Like imagine if living a half hour from work meant you could live hundreds of miles away. The main complication is stops. You can go a million miles an hour but if it takes 2 counties to get up to that speed safely and you put a train stop at twice that rate you'll never actually achieve "high speed". And that assumes you can land grab enough to make the rail a straight line in the first place. What would happen is we'd build a 700mph train that would never break 60mph and stop at every town along the way to cover costs, making what would otherwise be a 3 hour drive into a 4 hour train ride, or alternatively it would only stop at like 4 places and cost $200 each way per day. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz <cite>s0nicfan posted [p:928296736] in China layi... [t:78061060]...</cite> <quote>Bio1590 posted... </cite> <quote>High speed rail needs to be a thing in North America so, so bad. Like imagine if living a half hour from work meant you could live hundreds of miles away.</quote> The main complication is stops. You can go a million miles an hour but if it takes 2 counties to get up to that speed safely and you put a train stop at twice that rate you'll never actually achieve "high speed". And that assumes you can land grab enough to make the rail a straight line in the first place. What would happen is we'd build a 700mph train that would never break 60mph and stop at every town along the way to cover costs, making what would otherwise be a 3 hour drive into a 4 hour train ride, or alternatively it would only stop at like 4 places and cost $200 each way per day. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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