The number of passengers in the Amtrak, the intercity passenger train service in the USA, is very low compared to the numbers in other countries.

The US government has assured to make available around $ 13 billion worth of fund for high speed rail systems. They want to make the United States railway system as good as that in Europe and Asia…

The maglev train system predicted for 2025 will link Tokyo and Nagoya.
JR Tokai, the Japan railway company has mentioned the immense interest of the foreign companies…

“Las Vegas has the highest number of foreclosures in the whole of United States.
The percentage of unemployment is 13.9 which do not include the underemployed.
It has 2.6 million square feet of empty warehouses along with 13.3% industrial vacancy rate and 23 % office vacancy rate.”

The Shanghai maglev in China was a success. This kind of maglev project would be a life saving one for Las Vegas and all it needs is a support of all its residents…

Ernie Fazio, the president of the LIMBA, realizes the potential of the maglev technology and tries to draw attention of the potential maglev manufacturing companies to set up on Long Island.

But, the question remains about the applicability of Maglev 2000 for the Long Island rail transport where the trains have too many stops…

The Central Japan Railway Company submitted a construction report for the high speed magnetic levitation plan between Tokyo and Osaka to the transport minister Seiji Maehara. The report showed three different possible routes for the future Maglev lines, but the one running in the Southern Alps seems to be the best option…

MagPlane Technology Inc, expertise in Magnetic Technology for transporting people and goods, is supposed to receive $ 2 million. This help will facilitate the beginning of construction of an organized commercial system in 2010: The MagPipe System in Mongolia. You can see a MagPlane passenger system animation.

Indonesia develops the idea to build Hydrogen Hi-Speed Rail Super Highway, a magnetic levitation railway system by the year 2012. But before, they will analyze the technical and financial feasibility of this plan…This railway line is intended to connect the capital city Jakarta to numerous cities in West Java.

The General Contractors will support the construction of a magnetic levitation train from Las Vegas to Anaheim. This decision will generate 90,000 jobs for the local people and bring more tourists to Las Vegas…

The meeting happened in Washington D.C with The Transportation Secretary Lahood and US Senators Specter and Bob Casey. The Secretary was very optimistic about this high speed rail project because it represents the next generation of passenger rail technology.

Moreover, it will create new job opportunities, around 2.500, and increase economy. A forthcoming meeting with federal and state partners was planned to take these efforts… You will find more information on the Maglev project here…

Maglev is a high speed train which uses magnetic levitation, making it faster, quieter and smoother than the other trains. For the passengers, it’s the beginning of a new way to move…
This new technology holds the highest recorded speed in the world of trains and achieves 581km/h. For the moment, it exists only one maglev train in Shanghai but we can expect more projects in a near future…
Here you will follow the recent news about this high speed train!