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bullet trains they'll have running in California in about 50 years.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
There was actually a later prototype, with a Pratt & Whitney JT8D Turbofan that got up to almost 260 mph! Apparently, the tracks that they built are still there in the French countryside, almost intact. Thanks for the post.
It became pointless when MagLev arrived.
On the test track in Germany they regularly hit 260mph and the current record set in Japan is 375mph.
Admittedly that is only a few mph more than the french TGV achieved but then the wheel-driven TGV required 150km (93 miles) of downhill track to reach top speed AND slow down safely while the MagLev did it on just over 10 miles of track.
Another advantage of maglev is that it has no moving parts at all and it doesn't need to carry fuel.
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