Short video history of high speed trains around the world ending with a push for a system in California. It looks like the time is ripe and the state may finally get the high speed trains that have been talked about since the early 80s. (6 min)
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on Dec 6th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
great clip…i’ve been on the bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka…it was great! it would be nice to see some of these trains in the u.s.
on Dec 7th, 2009 at 8:38 am
I took that train as well when I was in Tokyo. I also took the train from Paris to somewhere south of France. Kind of pathetic that we do not have one in the US yet…
on Dec 7th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
agree…and yes, i took one in france too…they are pretty wonderful…i heard they were planning one in brazil from sao paulo to rio…
on Dec 10th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
a very sexy mode of transportation! I’m still a high speed rail virgin though…
on Dec 11th, 2009 at 8:12 am
You are not missing that much. They are not much different than regular trains.
on Dec 12th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
I took the one from Tokyo to Kyoto passing Mt Fuji on the way. It was awesome! Recently I missed the one in Taiwan as they ran out of ticket so we had to take the regular express instead.
on Dec 13th, 2009 at 11:29 am
It would be amazing if the trains would go up to 500 mph like they say it could. Airplane flights have a huge carbon footprint. It would be excellent if we can switch most flights to speedy trains.