If monorails (or maglevs) ever enter widespread use, how would the current bi-rail locomotives and rolling stock be retrofitted for use on monorail and/or maglev tracks?
by 
Egao No Genki
ANSWERS: 1
-
The cost of retrofitting the current trains would be enormous. Instead, the most likely scenario is that current bi-rail trains would be used for heavy cargo which the maglevs can't handle, and the high-speed trains would be used for more profitable passenger transport. They couldn't share a track. Try hauling 1000 cars and 400 tonnes of grain in a normal train along a maglev rail. Then picture a passenger train coming along at 300+km/h. Not a pretty picture. They would stay seperate, like cargo and pleasure boats do currently.
RELATED QUESTIONS
Copyright 2023, Wired Ivy, LLC