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In Reply to: RE: I defer to your.... posted by user510 on August 1, 2007 at 17:47:43:
Which is a nice way of saying that everything to do with the braking systems in use today is 1940s technology, adapted from George Westinghouse's 1890s technology when it comes to air brakes.
None of the US railroads use anything as forward thinking as the eddy current braking system in the link provided. That system, I believe, is in use on the "bullet trains" of Japan. A Mag/Lev system would use a similar technology.
Fascinating technology but as long as our government is not interested in funding research for high speed passenger rail transport systems, that technology is a long ways off for the USA.
Sorry to mix politics into a perfectly rational discussion about magnetic propulsion! I was limiting my thinking to domestic rail!
I am rather interested in the Teres drive. It would simplify a project that I have been mulling over.
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Al G.
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- North American Railroading is steeped in tradition - anumber1 18:24:09 08/01/07 (1)
- RE: North American Railroading is steeped in tradition - user510 19:16:58 08/01/07 (0)
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