Nowadays, the fastest way to get from one city to another in most countries is to fly. It is sounds crazy. But the trains of the future will change the way we travel. In Japan, a new kind of train that floats on air is being tested. These trains are called “Magnetically Levitated Trains”, or simply, MAGLEVS. They move on a magnetic cushion of air. In a recent test on Japan,s Kyushu Island, a magnetic train reached a speed of 320 miles per hour. The Japan National Railway hopes that by 1990, trains like this can replace the Shinkasen, the Bullet trains that travel between Tokyo and Osaka at 130 miles per hour. In Emsland, in northwest Germany, a 196-passanger maglev train will soon be tested at speeds of 250 miles per hour. German engineers hope that in the future, a maglev train system will link the cities of western Europe.
Plans are already being prepared to test maglevs in the United States. They could become an important part of the transportation system. Many American cities are a few hundred miles apart. A flight by air between cities like these only take an hour, but getting to the airport often takes longer than the flight itself. Airplanes are also less efficient than trains. They use a lot of fuel just getting into the air. Trains have another advantage over airplanes. They take their passangers directly to the center of cities.
The idea behind maglev trains is a simpleone. The opposite poles of magnets attract each other, but a pair of poles (a north and a north pole, for instance) repel each other. Either repulsion or attraction can be used to float a train.
There are still many problems to solve before the maglev can be used, especially in Indonesia. Laugh out loud. But I believe that someday the MAGLEV will be comes true.
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