Meet the 'Flying Train': Faster than Airplanes and Operating in China and Japan

In Japan, there is a train that doesn’t run on tracks in the traditional way. Instead, it moves through the air using Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) technology. The SCmaglev train exemplifies this ...
Railway Age

FRA Cancels $26MM in Funds for DC-Baltimore SCMAGLEV Project

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on Aug. 1 announced that it will cancel two grants totaling more than $26 million for the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., Superconducting Magnetic Levitation ...
WUSA

Greenbelt City Council wants to derail a 375 mph floating train planned from DC to Baltimore

The question is both rhetorical and critical to the city’s future, as the ambitious high-speed train proposal between D.C. and Baltimore meets the most serious challenges of its development. Greenbelt ...
WUSA

Floating train designed for DC – Baltimore dazzles, as NSA & NASA raise concerns

TSURU, YAMANASHI, JAPAN – It is a streak of quicksilver shooting through the foothills of Mt. Fuji, a vision of the future spotted instantly within a tranquil tableau. The world’s fastest train – ...
CNET

Japan's past and future trains float and roll at SCMaglev and Railway Park

Maglev sounds as sci-fi as teleporters and hovercars. A train that levitates above a track using electromagnets and cruises at aircraft speeds? That couldn't possibly be a reality. Except it is. China ...
Afro

Baltimore NAN supports Maglev transportation project

The National Action Network Greater Baltimore Chapter, Maryland’s largest affiliate of the leading civil rights organization, endorsed Northeast Maglev and the proposed Phase One of the SCMAGLEV train ...
The Baltimore Sun

Maglev in Maryland not feasible.

I have volunteered and been actively involved with Citizens Against the SCMaglev and the nonprofit Maryland Coalition for Responsible Transit to oppose the proposed magnetic levitation transportation ...