Re: Need suggestions for rail to maglev upgrade

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From: uplink-... Dan Ros
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 00:00

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In <37CFE687...@DELETEME.yahoo.com>, David Wallenstein
<DPW...@DELETEME.yahoo.com> wrote...
>Hmm, I can see where rail and monorail would be incompatible, but maglev could be
>combined with either.  I picture a locomotive with wheels and with a magnet
>sufficiently powerful to keep the wheels above the maglev track.  The trickiest
>part would be including both propulsion methods in the same vehicle, it would
>have to be huge.

The magnet doesnt have to be especially powerful, just leave a couple of
grooves in the maglev track for the wheels.

I dont think it would nessesarily have to be huge, the vehicle-side part
of a maglev system is essentially fixed magnets along the length of
it... the movement is controlled by the track circuitry.
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Subject: Re: Need suggestions for rail to maglev upgrade
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