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  2. Northeast Maglev - Wikipedia

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    Northeast Maglev (formally, The Northeast Maglev, LLC) is a private U.S. company proposing a maglev train system in the Northeastern United States. [2] The company aims to use the SCMaglev superconducting maglev system developed by the Central Japan Railway Company to provide 15-minute service between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., with an intermediate stop at BWI Airport, and ultimately ...

  3. North American Maglev Transport Institute - Wikipedia

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    The North American Maglev Transport Institute (NAMTI) is a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC, USA, and established to educate the public about the advantages of magnetic levitation (maglev) transport. [1]

  4. Maglev - Wikipedia

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    Transrapid 09 at the Emsland test facility in Lower Saxony, Germany A full trip on the Shanghai Transrapid maglev train Example of low-speed urban maglev system, Linimo. Maglev (derived from magnetic levitation) is a system of rail transport whose rolling stock is levitated by electromagnets rather than rolled on wheels, eliminating rolling resistance.

  5. List of maglev train proposals - Wikipedia

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    San Juan – Caguas: A 16.7-mile (26.9 km) maglev project has been proposed linking Tren Urbano's Cupey Station in San Juan with two proposed stations to be built in the city of Caguas, south of San Juan. The maglev line would run along Highway PR-52 connecting both cities. According to American Maglev Technology (AMT), who is the company in ...

  6. American Maglev Technology - Wikipedia

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    American Maglev Technology was founded in 1994. In the mid 1990s, they had a location and test track in Volusia County, Florida that they later abandoned around 2002. [ 6 ] [ 4 ] Before building the Old Dominion University maglev in 2001, they previously pitched the idea of a maglev system to Virginia Tech and Virginia Beach but later settled ...

  7. Transatlantic tunnel - Wikipedia

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    ) describes a vacuum/maglev system on the ocean floor. [9] The April 2004 issue of Popular Science suggests that a transatlantic tunnel is more feasible than previously thought, and without major engineering challenges. It compares it favorably with laying transatlantic pipes and cables, but with a cost of 88 to 175 billion dollars. [2]

  8. Laptops to get maglev keyboards that reduce their thickness - AOL

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    Anyway, a Taiwanese manufacturer called Darfon is persevering with the idea, and it's discovered that maglev keys, which rest on opposing magnets instead of mushy membranes or mechanical switches ...

  9. National Maglev Initiative - Wikipedia

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    The National Maglev Initiative (NMI) was a research program undertaken in the early 1990s by the United States Department of Transportation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Energy, and other agencies which studied magnetically levitated, or "maglev", train technology, operating at speeds around 300 miles per hour (480 km/h).