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To: DMaA who wrote (473248)	2/21/2012 6:38:47 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 794036

Yes, but peak speed was 500kph en.wikipedia.org < One segment of Shanghai's transit system is maglev. > And China is a good place for maglevs to get going. I was there a few years ago and wanted to visit Shanghai and have a ride on it but time ran out. Superconductor maglevs are very appealing. 20 years ago I visited Tokyo and they had toy superconductor trains at a science museum there. It was great to see even a toy in operation. It was a superconductor demonstration rather than a train demonstration and they had various things such as a melon suspended on a ring floating in air. Even ambient temperature maglev is fun. I've been a superconductor/maglev fan club member for quarter of a century. But liking the technology for its own sake is different from building economic transport. Going back to the original discussion = high speed rail in the USA with shovel-ready opm funding for it, I can't see that it would make sense any time soon, other than on highways [as mentioned]. Mqurice