Saturday, May 01, 2010

Get on the train while it's still moving

This is kind of neat. The problem is that high speed trains waste precious time stopping at stations.

But someone came up with an idea that would let the train keep going while taking on and letting off passengers and luggage.

Sounds bizarre until you see it.

4 comments:

Retro Blog said...

Fascinating! Now some engineer needs to sit down and figure out how this can get screwed up.

Karl Plesz said...

Bah! What could go wrong? [grin]

Anonymous said...

well envision some person more or less stuck in the entry vehicle and I think the initial take off of the forward car is going to produce some whiplash. Just sayin'.

Retro

Karl Plesz said...

I don't really have a lot of facts on the idea, but I'm thinking the train would not be going full speed, which should reduce the acceleration significantly. That's my guess.