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The US government has received applications from 24 states worth US$50 billion for high speed rail projects. The final decision on which project will receive funds will be made this winter. The decisions will be merit based and will reflect the president’s vision to revolutionarize the American transportation systems. In ...

A project for a testing ground for maglev trains with a price tag of $59 million is on cards at the Enterprise Park (EPCAL) in Calverton, New York. This proposal would use the Northrop Grumman site in Calverton (now EPCAL) for demonstration. The existing Long Island rail tracks would be ...

For decades, engineers have been dreaming and working hard to perfection the use of puissant electromagnets to levitate trains above their tracks so they could travel as fast as an aircraft. Speeds can be so extremely high because there is no physical contact between the tracks and the vehicles. In ...

While Shanghai commuters can already enjoy the speed thrills of a maglev ride (magnetic levitation train), it is still not clear when a similar railway line in Munich, Germany will see the light of day. Due to the current financial crisis, Deutsche Bahn postponed the €1.7 billion ($2.5 billion US$) ...

29 years of hard work and research on magnetic levitation trains in the United States of America is beginning to pay off. The Federal Railroad Administration SAFETEA-LU Maglev Program has announced a grant of $ 28 million on 10th of September 2009 for the maglev project in Pennsylvania, which adds ...