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To: Willie Green
Willie, I've been superficially [pun intended] interested in Maglev since I read about it a decade ago. But I'm no engineer, and I don't know much more about current progress. Do you have any good (non-technical) links where I could brush up?
20 posted on 04/27/2004 12:46:05 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (Is Arlen Specter a conservative Republican? Umm... "Not proven.")
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To: MNLDS
Do you have any good (non-technical) links where I could brush up?

Might as well go straight to the source:

Federal Railroad Administration: High-Speed Ground Transportation (High-speed rail AND Maglev)
Federal Railroad Administration: About the MAGLEV Deployment Program
Maglev of Pennsylvania or Baltimore-Washington Maglev (The two projects competing AGAINST each other)
Transrapid International -- the German Maglev builder whose technology was built in Shanghai and will be used in either Pittsburgh OR Baltimore-Washington.

I have other info available on other competing Maglev technologies as well, but Transrapid is by far the most maturely developed and most probable for initial use in the U.S..

A search on "Maglev" in the FR archives will turn up some articles for a maglev people shuttle on the campus of Old Dominion University by a Lockheed associated company called American Maglev. It's finally starting to get going again after experiencing some minor technical difficulties magnified by funding snafus. (Not surprising: the project is actually quite amazing considering the comparatively skimpy shoestring budget!)

Hope that's enough to get ya going.

21 posted on 04/27/2004 2:01:15 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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