Of course, this is infinitely more feasible than Musk's hyperloop because a) it's a real fucking train, and b) China is the world leader in HSR. This thing loops sexy.

  • kristina [she/her]
    ·
    edit-2
    4 years ago

    so i keep an eye on chinese trainwatching talk and the speculation is that the ccp wants to put this in a shanghai to beijing route, they tend to like doing this with their highest speed trains, though there might be significant resource costs that make this infeasible, we'll see soon because the ccp moves fast

    • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
      hexagon
      ·
      edit-2
      4 years ago

      :che-poggers: Makes sense, it's one of (maybe the most) heavily trafficked route, so making it faster and sleeker is always good! How does one, uh, join you in keeping an eye on this Chinese trainwatching talk?

      EDIT: This might be motivated by the CPC beating Japan to the punch, who's planning to roll out their super fast maglev train on a route between Tokyo and Osaka (see this post I made a while back)

      • kristina [she/her]
        ·
        4 years ago

        ill try to find the link, they were talking about this thing a couple months back. it was on weibo i think

          • kristina [she/her]
            ·
            4 years ago

            ahh i made a post on it but for whatever reason chacha doesnt want to load my history ;-; look for a chinese planned rail map i posted i linked the forum in the comments somewhere

          • kristina [she/her]
            ·
            4 years ago

            i just use google translate lmao but yeah its hard to find links to things if you dont know the chinese words for stuff