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The trend in Europe is to have vertical bike racks in the passenger compartment of the train. British Railways has let bikers ride with their machines in the mail car. I came across some articles by Laurence Blow on on high speed trains. Seems in 1992, he and three other engineers tried to follow the NYS Truway by aircraft. At 180 mph the plane had to bank hard to track the turns on the ground and they became violently ill from motion sickness.. The turns were too tight for that speed. See Popular Science May 2010. The higher the speed of a HiLo system, the longer between stops since most people would not be comfortable accelerating faster than 0.5g. Then again some folks like roller coaster rides. Six hours from NYC to San Diego is about 3600 miles or 600 mph. The record time for an automobile in the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining Sea race was NYC to Long Beach, CA was 36 hours.
On the up side, Italy is producing trains capable of 223 mph.
Last edited by Grant-53; 05-03-2012 at 07:58 PM..
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