China passenger train hits 300 mph, breaks record

[AsahinaKimi]

BEIJING – A Chinese passenger train hit a record speed of 302 miles per hour (486 kilometers per hour) Friday during a test run of a yet-to-be opened link between Beijing and Shanghai, state media said.

The Xinhua News Agency said it was the fastest speed recorded by an unmodified conventional commercial train. Other types of trains in other countries have traveled faster.

A specially modified French TGV train reached 357.2 mph (574.8 kph) during a 2007 test, while a Japanese magnetically levitated train sped to 361 mph (581 kph) in 2003.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101203/ap_on_hi_te/as_china_high_speed_rail

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Wonder how long before California's train is operational? Twenty Years? I really
want to ride on a Shinkansen before my life is over..

[midnight]

1. Meanwhile in my state of Wisconsin the newly elected teabagger

is sending funding for our high speed rail away. It will cost us jobs and money.....

[Hugabear]

11. Teabaggers hate progress. They're trying to do it here in Florida also

Newly elected Teabagger Gov. Rick Scott has made his feelings about high-speed rail well known. Even though millions (if not billions) of dollars have already either been spent or allocated for this, and even though it would bring thousands of new jobs, he's ready to kill the entire project.

[wilt the stilt]

2. Don't complain

our top trains almost hit 100. It is unbelievable ho w e have let our entire infrastructure decline for tax cuts which generates nothing.

[hobbit709]

10. Our railroads ran faster 100 years ago than today.

The deterioration of the tracks makes them unsafe at any high speed. Once again corporate profits have outweighed maintenance costs.

[B Calm]

3. I remember a day when we were considered great. . .

[lib2DaBone]

12. Chiana has 300mph rail.. is rebuilding their electric grid... building their country...

in the U.S. ? Our roads are falling apart and we are forcing grandma to eat catfood.

But hey, as long as the wealthy STAY wealthy... it's all good... (snark)

[wilt the stilt]

29. the wealthy create jobs

yeah right.

[HEyHEY]

24. They stole all the technology from the Germans.

[Bucky]

4. If they whip the children on the treadmills harder, they can get it up to 320mpg

But this is China, so they'd never do that to children.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. Lead paint & asbestos DO work.

[Vickers]

6. No fucking way I'd take a Chinese train at those speeds. n/t

[Tesha]

13. Posts like this always leave me wondering: are you serious?

I ask because such posts seem to embed the assumption that
anything built by the Chinese is junk, but we know that's not
true. The computer you're posting with was almost certainly
at least 90% built by the Chinese, as is basically anything
electronic in the modern world. Is it all junk?

How about the shoes you're wearing? The odds are at least
fair they were made by Chinese -- are they junk?

How about almost everything in your kitchen (pots, pans,
utensils, and the like)?

The Chinese will build to whatever quality level their customers
ask for, from junk to the best quality available in the world.
This train is probably built to quite high quality standards.

Tesha

[Vickers]

15. My computer was made in Malaysia (Dell), my shoes were made

in England (Doc Martens), my kitchen stuff was made in the USA (RevereWare, KitchenAid, etc.), Italy (Bialetti), Germany (lots of stuff), Japan (knives and etc.).

Yup, I'm one of those jackasses who pretty much refuses to buy Chinese-made junk...I'd say less than 1% of the stuff in my house was made in China.

But thanks for being presumptious!

:thumbsup:

P.S. I hope you'll remember this thread when, Gawd forbid, they have their first major crash in this thing.

[Tesha]

16. Your Dell computer *WAS NOT* "made in Malaysia".

It was made many, many places. Perhaps all the bits
were finally screwed together in Malaysia, but labor was
added to that computer from all over Asia, and it's almost
a certainty that much of that labor was from China. For
example, electrolytic capacitors hardly come from any-
where else nowadays. Many of the largest chip manufacturers
do much or most of their work in China (or at least Taiwan).

Same thing for any electronics whether the electronics
are in your computer, your high-end ovens, your car,
your TV, or anything else: made in China.

And it wouldn't be surprising to find that anything made
of steel has a Chinese labor contribution.

Tesha

[Vickers]

18. OK, you got me. Now you can go over to WalMart and buy all the fucking

Chinese junk you can carry, smug in the knowledge that you have completely bested me.

:rofl:

Adios!

[Tesha]

19. Well, at least I don't resort to rudeness, just facts. (NT)

[dipsydoodle]

7. Video of the TGV record

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJfDWtbioEM

[CanonRay]

8. 300mph trains are Communist

so we can't have them!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

9. built by the finest in slave labor in the world... nt

[Tesha]

14. Do you really believe a) that all Chinese laborers are slave laborers and ...

... b) *BY APPLYING THE SAME STANDARDS*, no American laborers
are slave laborers?

Tesha

[ProdigalJunkMail]

22. not all...and i didn't suggest a comparison n/t

do YOU believe that labor is treated fairly in China? do you even believe they are mostly NOT slave labor?

sP

[Tesha]

27. Yes, I believe that they are *MOSTLY* not "slave labor".

Are work conditions difficult for many? Yes.

And so will poverty (non-employment and under-employment)
conditions be for millions more Americans every year.

Tesha

[Mimosa]

17. While the US remains mired in pointless wars and our economy sinks.

SAD. China advances technologically while we invest in wars. Our populace loses ground. They invest in education. What's wrong with this picture?

[Tesha]

20. > What's wrong with this picture?

Nothing if you're Chinese.

A whole lot if you're American.

Tesha

[ProdigalJunkMail]

23. "nothing if you're chinese" ???

right...labor in china a workers dreamland...

sP

[HEyHEY]

26. China hasn't advanced shit

They just stole a crap load of ideas from the Germans when they built China's first HSR line. Then they hired engineers from the west to improve on them. then they pretend its them who did it.

[AsahinaKimi]

21. One has to admit

Thats the FASTEST piece of "Junk" anyone has seen. Aren't you amazed it didn't fly apart at 15 MPH? I am seriously Jealous we don't have something like this.

[HEyHEY]

25. They just stole all the technology from the Germans then pretend they did it - typical

[Tesha]

28. You've said this three times now, but you haven't provided any proof.

Are the Germans suing someone over the theft of
their technology? Are they taking any action at the
WTO? Any other enforcement means?

Tesha

[HEyHEY]

30. It's well known

A german company built the mag-lev from tianjin to beijing... mysteriously, after that, all these other high speed trains showed up in China.
But if you must see proof

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/b2ebd992-40dd-11df-94c2-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Fb2ebd992-40dd-11df-94c2-00144feabdc0.html&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.koreansentry.com%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ft%3D2348

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/ResoluteBob/us-highspeed-rail-china-t_n_497854_42227742.html

Or any of these

http://www.google.com.hk/search?hl=zh-CN&source=hp&biw=1024&bih=576&q=china+stole+technology+from+germans+for+trains&aq=o&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=