Businesspeople from Japan and the United States have organized an occasion to advertise the development of a magnetic levitation railway for the US East Coast.
The Central Japan Railway Company, or JR Tokai, and Northeast Maglev, a US agency accountable for the railway’s growth, held the occasion in New York on Wednesday.
The high-speed prepare is anticipated to journey the 360-kilometer distance between New York and Washington in about one hour.
Environmental evaluation is at present underway for a 65-kilometer part between Baltimore and Washington with subsidies from the federal authorities.
JR Tokai has been constructing the levitating prepare line that may join Shinagawa in Tokyo with Nagoya, central Japan.
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