High-Speed Trains: The Pursuit of Speed and Technical Excellence | FD Engineering

America has been left behind in the world of high-speed trains.

The test in the 1950's with the two French locomotives was actually extremely dangerous because nobody had tried to push an electric locomotive to such unprecedented speeds. In fact, the test trains nearly derailed when they went for the record 331 km/h (205.7 mph) speed; the films of the test were never showly publicly until several decades after the test runs.

Just after the 30-minute mark, the narrator says the rails are welded with aluminum? Either that is some incredible technology or an error. However, if there are such challenges with catenary flex, I am surprised that overhead rail has not been developed. Now, that rail could be aluminum as on several third-rail electrical systems. I never cared for third-rail systems. So much power on the ground just seems too dangerous.

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I remember when I was a kid, I got myself an Orange Train 'Micro Machine' toy, it was one of my favorite toy trains. I as an adult, am fascinated the real thing broke records. Neat!

It's weird that this video totally ignores the Shinkansen until the 1970s and then the snippets inserted about the Shinkansen have confusions with the maglev train in development.

I had the pleasure of numerous train travel trips in Europe in '98 and was more than impressed. Fast, economical and spotless. Sadly, the USA lags the world in train transportation by decades if not a century.

China now holds the record and no one is talking about it.

I've travelled briefly at 426 km/h on the maglev in Shanghai, the top speed has been reduced now though not sure why

The key characteristic of Enron Musk’s Hyperloop is”Hype”… enough said!

The video is now a little out of date. the Chinese now have around 40,000 miles of high speed line, all constructed over a little more than a decade. They also upgraded over 110,000 miles of suburban lines that feed passengers into the big stations where the HS trains stop. I have ridden on the European, Japanese and Chinese high speed intercity trains as well as the Maglev from Pudong into Shanghai. And we, foolishly, believe the USA is the greatest country on Earth. Thank goodness for Elon Musk, an immigrant from South Africa, who is at least keeping us ahead in the automobile industry (the Tesla Model Y is currently the top-selling vehicle in the world) and in space with SpaceX, although the Chinese are working industriously to occupy the moon and possibly even Mars before we can. As a child, I remember riding around London on 'trolley buses'. These were electric buses with a panto-graph like structure on top that brought the power down from overhead catenary power lines. In their 'wisdom' the bus companies replaced them with stinking diesel buses. Imbeciles!

@45:16 Guy kinda looks like Bryan Cranston.

Why you keep re uploading same videos with different thumbnails 😂

These records are awesome but a practical record is the operating speed. At only 320km/hr operating speed is far less than the record speed. Perhaps they should focus on increasing the operating speed instead.

Eight meter wide triple level maglev trains traveling 800 kph - 1,000 kph are a reasonable development to start to take place by 2045. The issue with HSR is that it is rail that first made 300 kph way back in the late 1970s and is not maglev with new first generation 500 kph maglev trains in Japan scheduled to start in 2027. They need nearly incrementally free electricity. An eight meter wide maglev trains could load typical automobiles perpendicular on the first level with the second and third levels being continues luxury passenger space with vista dome tops to allow passengers to see forward watching the country side. The wide and tall cargo maglev cars would allow large much larger cargo to be moved over land than possible before changing the world we live in. With many HSR projects taking over ten years to bring to completion and some like CAHSR much longer it makes a lot more sense to start to look at practical double wide maglev implementation that should be viable in a couple decades.

Dumb idea to go for 700kph or beyond without using low pressure vacuum tube as in hyperloop.

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Usual Musk HyperLoop Hype

There is literally no way Amtrak will get to this level within the next few decades

This is when the US should have gotten serious about trains. Now we're stuck with gas guzzling cars