Magnetic Levitation Trains

Magnetic Levitation Trains are high speed trains that use electromagnetic propulsion to propel passenger trains at even higher speeds than conventional high speed rail.
==History==
===2000-2020===
German company Siemens constructed the first operational maglev line between Shanghai's downtown Pudong district and its airport in 2003, allowing passengers to make the trip in 7 minutes at speeds of over 350 mph. However, public opposition in Shanghai suburbs prevented plans for an extension of the system to Hangzhou.
===2021-2040===
During the 2020s, Japan and China began constructing inter-city maglevs lines between their major cities. Japan completed a portion of its Chuo Shinkansen maglev system between Tokyo and Nagoya in 2025. China Railways completed China's first intercity maglev line between its capital Beijing and Tianjin on the Bohai Sea in 2028 reducing express travel time between the centers of the two northern Chinese mega cities to under 15 minutes. An extension of the system linked the center of Beijing to massive new airport south of the Chinese capital completed in 2018.
On October 16th, 2033, Japan officially opened the entire Chuo Shinkansen maglev system between Tokyo and Kobe, providing 400+ mph high speed passenger train service between most of Japan's biggest cities. The new system allows messengers to travel between Tokyo and Osaka in just under an hour by train. The system also had stops in Nagoya and Kyoto.
Japan also announced plans to export its maglev technology offering to help build a maglev train system between Boston and Washington D.C. in the busy northeastern corridor of the United States, providing the region with a world class high speed rail system.
China began developing even faster vacuum maglev trains in the 2030s, planning to connect all its major cities and all of the various regions of the Eurasian landmass by ultra high speed maglevs by 2052. 
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