Cranes, trains, planes and excavators and stuff like that

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603 kmh / 375 mph (scmaglev.jr-central-global.com)

submitted 1 year ago by laverabe to c/cranetrainexcavators

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L0 Series SCMaglev

As for the fastest speeds ever reached by a train, the honour of fastest train in the world goes to the L0 Series SCMaglev in Japan.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like old school robots driving that thing

[–] laverabe 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah those are weird. Must be some sort of computer terminals or something.

I couldn't find a picture but I found this cool photoessay site of someone's trip travelling inside one of these: https://www.epsilonsworld.com/2016/08/riding-test-linear-maglev-shinkansen-in.html

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wow what a cool train. Thanks for that article.