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Disadvantages of JR-Maglev

JR-Maglev systems get affected easily by snow, ice or severe cold. 58.138.45.196 (talk) 05:28, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

By all means, find a reliable source for that assertion, and add it to the article. Tim PF (talk) 07:22, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"JR-Maglev"

So, the term "JR-Maglev" isn't a thing. Nowhere in JR Central's English literature is the system referred to as anything but the SCMAGLEV (all caps) or the Superconducting Maglev. See: SCMAGLEV and Railway Park (http://museum.jr-central.co.jp/en/), references to the system in their Data Books (http://english.jr-central.co.jp/company/company/others/data-book/). The only place that the term JR-Maglev is used is on Wikipedia and unofficial blogs and such that are referencing this page.

I can confirm this as a representative of a firm working directly with JR Central in the U.S. We are told to use the term 'SCMAGLEV' in all marketing materials. The disconnect on Wikipedia has caused quite a bit of confusion.

I created a page for 'SCMAGLEV' and redirected it to this page for the time being, but unless there is objection, I plan to swap the names, so that JR-Maglev redirects to 'SCMAGLEV' instead, and "SCMAGLEV" becomes the focus of the article. --Pdovak (talk) 16:02, 20 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with your comments about the apparently fictional "JR-Maglev" name, and have gone ahead and boldly moved the article to "SCMaglev". Note that the stylistic "SCMAGLEV" in all-caps is a non-starter on Wikipedia, as it contravenes our manual of style guidelines at WP:MOSCAPS and WP:MOSTM, even if JR Central likes to write it as "SCMAGLEV". --DAJF (talk) 01:04, 21 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WJR crash

Should there not be at least a small reference to the crash caused by WJR's cultural obsession with speed of service? This article feels a little like a corporate puff-piece on tech progress, with no historical or cultural context. 67.127.52.82 (talk) 09:04, 13 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

relative passing speed record

The article has a chart on this without any explanation and even links the term to another article, but that doesn't even mention it. --Espoo (talk) 13:45, 4 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The speeds seem to have confused the km/h to mile conversion? >1000 km/h nears the speed of sound.

Yes, that is how fast they are going. Relative speed means the speeds of the two trains passing each other are summed, so each one was going at over 500 km/h. --Ita140188 (talk) 16:11, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Issues with SCMaglev

How are the super conducting magnets cooled down?
I heard in a youtube video, they are cooled with liquid helium. This is a rather expensive material and is more or less used up over a certain time. This would be a serious downside compared to wheel based designs and increase costs (which contradicts the original cost arguments).
The German Transrapid system has been finished years ago and hasn't seen any adoption besides the real-life-demonstrator in Shanghai. What makes SCMaglev better compared to that system? --SaroEngels (talk) 11:30, 25 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

formerly called the MLU

No explanation is given of what the acronym MLU stands for. Magnetic Levitation is pretty obvious from the first two letters. I'm not sure what the U is however. StuZealand (talk) 04:13, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]