Capital of the railroad in the world, TOKYO.

[Tokyo☆☆☆]

In Tokyo, railroad, subway, private railroad, monorail, LRT accumulate it.
It exceeds 360 places only at a subway station. Time is also exact.
Severe claim is attached from a passenger only by arrival being overdue for 30 seconds.　Service to be usable for all trains, a bus, shopping with one card began from this year.
In addition, Oedo Line inaugurated in '90 is a subway the second Maglev type in the world, (the first is Tsurumiryokuchi line of Osaka).

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http://www.city.fuji.shizuoka.jp/machi/minna/h3.jpg

[Tokyo☆☆☆]

Twin tower of Tokyo Station is to be completed in this summer.
Tokyo station
http://www.copipe.net/archives/daijin/040910tokyo.jpg
Omotesando station
http://www.foodrink.co.jp/backnumber/200510/img/051009_1.jpg
Shinagawa station
http://www.foodrink.co.jp/backnumber/200510/img/051009_20.jpg
http://of-tokyo.jp/photo/10280_a_big.jpg

[Tokyo☆☆☆]

Maglev recorded maximum speed 581km/h in 2003. It was authorized by Guinness Book of World Records"].

:( The French TGV recorded 574km/h by an examination run.
:sly: However, frictional heat produces a wheel-type railroad.
:yuck: Therefore, as for the maximum speed, 350km/h is called a limit.

:) ;) As for Maglev, commercial driving from 700km/h to more than 800km/h is possible.:) ;)

JR-MAGLEV
http://www.pref.nara.jp/koho/kenseidayori2/tayori/t2001/tayori1305/img/05_03.jpg
http://www.ito-wataru.com/activities/06/0629-thumb.jpg

Shinkansen
http://www.rickdom.com/archives/images/nekomimi.jpg
http://www.town.kikonai.hokkaido.jp/shinkansen/shinkansen2.jpeg

[Tokyo☆☆☆]

http://www.mlit.go.jp/annai/annai01/images/tetudo_002.gif


http://www.transport-pf.or.jp/land/rail/img/fu04.jpg


Taiwan rapid transit railway. The Japanese Sinkansen was exported.

http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/img/user/55/45/5895545/497.jpg


http://www.mlit.go.jp/hakusyo/mlit/h13/image/Ds2C0200.gif


http://www.iida.fm/pc/05-nikki/15-0724/001.jpg


http://www.shin.ie.kanagawa-u.ac.jp/~makoto/Trip/Expo2005/picture/SANY0112.JPG



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[Latoso]

Very cool! Japan has some great passenger trains. But if you're going to call yourself the railroad capital of the world you have to take into account some old-school freight trains as well. And nobody rocks it old-school like Chicago, the real railroad capital. ;)

http://www.damchicago.com/e-cards/chicago-skyline-train.jpg

http://www.railroadpix.com/images/passenger/pas_img_12/metra138_021588_ohiost.JPG

http://www.railpixs.com/amt2/AMT363_Chicago_June82.jpg

[Trainman Dave]

:) ;) As for Maglev, commercial driving from 700km/h to more than 800km/h is possible.:) ;)


Where does all that energy come from?
For trainsets similar in shape and length, the power required to over come aero dynamic drag at 700 km/h is 43 times the power required at 200 km/h. Thus 43 times as much energy is used!

If you really need to travel at 700 km/h, use aircraft as the aero dynamic drag decreases substantially at 30,000 feet.

[Tokyo☆☆☆]

;) ;) :) MAGLEV is inaugurated between Tokyo ー Osaka in 2025.
Iｔ is said that an airplane is abolished if it comes true.
On the other hand, abroad airplanes for will increase.

[SpeedoPro]

why did Tokyo get banned?

[excel]

tokyo has trains?

[Grumpy]

Some Japanese trains do have weird designs.
Would love to know more about its infrastructure though

[Trainman Dave]

Some Japanese trains do have weird designs.
Would love to know more about its infrastructure though

This english language site has useful information on the Shinkansen
http://www.h2.dion.ne.jp/~dajf/byunbyun/

I wish I had a similar web site for the national narrow guage system in Japan.

If you study the photographs of the Japanese MagLev experiemental vehicles, you will find the origins of most of the "weird designs". The MagLev consortium is very concerned about the aero dynamic drag at very high speeds and they have been experiementing with designs to reduce the coeficient of drag (Cd) for their high speed vehicles. This research has migrated to the faster Shinkansen.

I even suspect that it influenced the design of the Talgo 'duck"

[VivaLFuego]

Why was he banned, out of curiosity? Was it because of this thread?

[GSTom1]

Why was he banned, out of curiosity? Was it because of this thread?

I think he got banned for thread crapping and not sticking to topics. For example, he posted non-relavant stuff in this thread:

5 favorite cities you've been to (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=130151&page=6)

:koko:

[micro]

In addition, Oedo Line inaugurated in '90 is a subway the second Maglev type in the world, (the first is Tsurumiryokuchi line of Osaka).

Not correct! Don't confuse linear motor with magnetic levitation. Oedo line runs on conventional rails and wheels. It has linear motors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_motor) but not maglev.
Maglev (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev_train) means floating on a magnetic cushion which Oedo line does not. There are several metro lines with linear motors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_Advanced_Rapid_Transit) in the world, as well as several airport people movers.

The linear motor can be seen between the rails in these photos of Oedo line:

http://www.penta-ocean.co.jp/english/works/works_photos/work9_1_1.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Toei-oedo-line-kuramae-platform.jpg/800px-Toei-oedo-line-kuramae-platform.jpg

[Shawn]

I freaking hate the Oedo-sen. It goes nowhere useful, it takes 20 minutes to walk down all those stairs to get to the deep-level platform, and the rolling stock itself is narrow and always seems to be filled with stuffy air.

[Urban Zombie]

I think he got banned for thread crapping and not sticking to topics. For example, he posted non-relavant stuff in this thread:

5 favorite cities you've been to (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=130151&page=6)

:koko:

Is it just me or do asian forumers seem to get banned for what would normally result in just a suspension for North American forumers...this sort of reminds me of Peaceful's fate--unless Tokyo had a very incriminating post somewhere.

[twoNeurons]

In addition, Oedo Line inaugurated in '90 is a subway the second Maglev type in the world, (the first is Tsurumiryokuchi line of Osaka).



Vancouver's Skytrain uses LIM as well, not designed in Japan, but in Canada.
Started 1985.

Japan DOES, however, have the world's first Maglev mass transit system. The Linimo in Nagoya was built for the Expo in 2005. Max speed is ~100km/h.

They're testing Maglev in northern Japan, too.

[beanhead4529]

am i the only one who believes that a maglev is not a train/railroad. i mean, it doesn't have actual rails. IMO a maglev should be classified as a new form of transportation. is there ANYone else who feels the same way?

[pdxtex]

what else are you going to call it? it follows a guided path like trains do just with out wheels...

[beanhead4529]

what else are you going to call it? it follows a guided path like trains do just with out wheels...

i would just call it a MagLev, but not a train