SHANGHAI — Other countries said no. But China said yes. So the world’s fastest passenger train will have its commercial maiden voyage here in the Middle Kingdom’s cutting-edge city in 2003. The ...
ARRIVED China is first to build commercial maglev trains; U.S. engineers want to emulate. China’s bold move to build 30 kilometers of magnetically levitated high-speed guideway between Shanghai and ...
An interferometric alignment system helps Chinese engineers building what will become the world's fastest train. A laser tracking system is to help engineers in Shanghai, China, build a new ultra-fast ...
Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji and visiting German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder cut the ribbon for the trial operation of Shanghai Transrapid Maglev Line, a high-speed transportation system. Premier Zhu ...
The Transrapid in Shanghai has set a new world for commercial railway systems of 501 kmh (311 mph). The maglev (magnetic levitation) train, which has no wheels, axels, engine or transmission, broke ...
BERLIN -- Chinese officials made a preliminary decision to use the magnetic levitating railway technology of Germany's Transrapid International consortium -- which includes Siemens AG and ThyssenKrupp ...