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China Tests 500 km/h Super High-Speed Train [Constructed With Stolen US Technology!]
Yahoo Finance ^ | December 26, 2011

Posted on 12/26/2011 10:29:54 AM PST by Steelfish

China Tests 500 km/h Super High-Speed Train

Visitors board a new testing model of a CSR high-speed bullet train during its launching ceremony in Qingdao, Shandong province December 23, 2011. China launched a super-rapid test train over the weekend which is capable of travelling 500 kilometers per hour, state media said on Monday. Picture taken December 23, 2011.

China launched a super-rapid test train over the weekend which is capable of travelling 500 kilometers per hour, state media said on Monday, as the country moves ahead with its railway ambitions despite serious problems on its high-speed network. The train, made by a subsidiary of CSR Corp Ltd, China's largest train maker, is designed to resemble an ancient Chinese sword, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

It "will provide useful reference for current high-speed railway operations," it quoted train expert Shen Zhiyun as saying.

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To: ExCTCitizen

Exactly. I’ve ridden the high speed trains in China (from Shanghai to Nanjing) and they’re a lot of Siemens units. China paid the Germans and Japanese to come in, show them how to build the systems, how to lay the rail, and to provide a few hundred cars.

Then China began duplicating.

Nothing I’d seen in China reminded me at all of any AMTRAK train or system I’ve ever seen... European and Japanese, sure - but not American.


41 posted on 12/26/2011 11:32:00 AM PST by FromTheSidelines ("everything that deceives, also enchants" - Plato)
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To: Steelfish; bigheadfred; All
Here's a picture; It looks cool. Don't know how nice it'd look after derailing at 300+ mph. Does look cooler than the trains we've got here (and with gasoline around $8.25 per gallon, I'll take the train, thanks).
42 posted on 12/26/2011 11:41:54 AM PST by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: Steelfish

a train or anything else traveling at this speed along the ground is just plain stupid. Too many things can go wrong as far as things getting in the way.


43 posted on 12/26/2011 11:46:39 AM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: AnAmericanAbroad
"will provide useful reference for current high-speed railway operations,"

We must be getting closer to town.

How can you tell?

We're hitting more people.

44 posted on 12/26/2011 11:48:41 AM PST by bigheadfred
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To: Steelfish

Considering we have one of the worst train systems in the world, why would they try to steal our technology?


45 posted on 12/26/2011 11:55:42 AM PST by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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To: Steelfish

The lesson is, that, until America can achieve the labor costs of China, we will never be able to afford a high tech society.


46 posted on 12/26/2011 11:58:18 AM PST by depressed in 06 ( Where is the 1984 Apple Super Bowl ad when we need it?)
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To: Steelfish

Who in hell cares whether the technology was “stolen?” China is using it, while we’re not. The future belongs to those who take risks. Let the meek inherit the Earth - it’s all they deserve.


47 posted on 12/26/2011 12:02:55 PM PST by BlazingArizona
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To: BlazingArizona

CA high speed LA-SF derailed. The technology and know-how is there but prohibitive labor costs. Communist China has no unions. Rich in irony.


48 posted on 12/26/2011 12:06:06 PM PST by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Steelfish

Willie Green would be proud.


49 posted on 12/26/2011 12:07:54 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Steelfish

What happens when a water buffalo stand on the tracks in front of one of those? Will the nose crumple or is it an armored ram?


50 posted on 12/26/2011 12:13:22 PM PST by fso301
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To: joe fonebone
this is only newsworthy to the convert america to europe liberal hippies...

So using advanced technology to transport on high speed rails makes one a "liberal hippie"?

Can you spell Luddite...

51 posted on 12/26/2011 12:18:41 PM PST by Prokopton
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To: Prokopton
"So using advanced technology to transport on high speed rails makes one a "liberal hippie"?"
Gee, I must have missed something... powered railways have been around for almost 200 hundred years, and human power push railways for thousands.... are you saying getting more horsepower out of outdated technology is "advanced"? if it has wheels riding on 40 pound a yard rail, it is not advanced... now, if you can get magnetic, no contact transports (at this point they would no longer be railways, as they would not be riding on rails) then you can talk to me about "advanced"... until then this is just a hippies dream, and a talking point for mass transit....
52 posted on 12/26/2011 12:28:50 PM PST by joe fonebone (Project Gunwalker, this will make watergate look like the warm up band......)
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To: hosepipe

Better yet just cut power to the mag lev system when the thing hits full speed. Whole new version of chinese fireworks.


53 posted on 12/26/2011 12:32:27 PM PST by bossmechanic (If all else fails, hit it with a hammer)
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To: bossmechanic

I’d pay to see that..


54 posted on 12/26/2011 12:37:28 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: Steelfish

Thanks for the post, looking forward to more train ones.


55 posted on 12/26/2011 12:39:21 PM PST by 92nina
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To: Steelfish

Unless it runs on an elevated track or in a tunnel where could this train run at that speed?


56 posted on 12/26/2011 12:48:58 PM PST by 1776 Reborn
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To: joe fonebone
Gee, I must have missed something... powered railways have been around for almost 200 hundred years, and human power push railways for thousands....

Yes, you sure did miss "something". By your thinking, as powered aircraft have been around for more than 100 years, the Concorde would be "just a hippies dream".

Fail.

57 posted on 12/26/2011 12:49:05 PM PST by Prokopton
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To: BlazingArizona

Passenger railroads are as much of a money loser for them as it is for anyone else.


58 posted on 12/26/2011 12:51:37 PM PST by DManA ( ex)
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To: harpu

There are beautiful freeways parallel to their train tracks between the major cities and they are full of cars and buses.


59 posted on 12/26/2011 12:52:45 PM PST by DManA ( ex)
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To: fso301

In China, they’re almost always elevated ways...


60 posted on 12/26/2011 1:01:11 PM PST by FromTheSidelines ("everything that deceives, also enchants" - Plato)
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