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...vitesse), hits only 186 m.p.h. One maglev is already running: a short, slow-moving (25 m.p.h.) line in Britain that shuttles people from Birmingham's airport to the railway station. But much faster prototypes are being tested, and ambitious projects could get under way next year, including a 230-mile link between the Los Angeles area and the gambling mecca of Las Vegas...
...they achieve perfect conductivity. Turning the thermostat that low requires costly liquid helium and heavy compressors aboard the train to reliquefy the evaporating helium. The Japanese, who have poured $379 million of private and government funds into the maglev, have reached a speed of 323 m.p.h. on a 4.4- mile straight track at Miyazaki on the southern island of Kyushu. But the track has none of the loops and sharp curves found along real railways. It will probably be at least five years before the Japanese develop a model that is both economic and practical enough to be commercially viable...
...have to be serene to carry the Japanese through what looks to be years of headlines and television coverage for the West Germans. Their Transrapid program, which has consumed more than $830 million of public funds, is readying its final prototype, the TR-07, for tests on a 20-mile track with loops at both ends at Lathen, near the Dutch border. A previous model, the TR-06, has already run the straightaway at 256 m.p.h.; the TR-07 is designed to reach 300 m.p.h. Most impressive of all, though, is the Transrapid consortium's push to break ground...
...more certain project for the moment is the Hamburg-Hannover line, which the West German government committed itself to building last June, with operation scheduled for the mid-1990s. The track is planned as the first segment of a 600-mile Kiel-Munich line, but not all systems are go yet. Some politicians and many citizens remain unconvinced that the $1.8 billion needed for the first segment will be money well spent, especially with $1.35 billion already allocated for a high-speed conventional-railway project called the Inter-City Experimental. Transrapid supporters, however, do not think the choice between conventional...
...casino-express contract, maglev technology is already on its way to the U.S. Magnetic Transit of America, a subsidiary of West Germany's Daimler-Benz, broke ground in downtown Las Vegas last January for a slower-speed -- 50 m.p.h. -- maglev urban-transit system. Completion of the initial 1.3-mile segment of the Las Vegas People Mover is planned for 1991 -- perhaps a good year for dating the beginning of the maglev...