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by Tondoteottotote on August 12th, 2006

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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?

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  • by geek860 on August 14th, 2006

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    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.

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