Washington to New York City in 60 minutes by train

And guess who gets to pay for it...

The Northeast Maglev, a downtown D.C. firm with 30 employees, is working with Central Japan Railway Co. — which operates the Shinkansen bullet train in Japan — to develop a maglev network that would connect Washington and New York, with stops in Baltimore, Wilmington and Philadelphia, including BWI Airport, Philadelphia International Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport. Eventually, the company wants to extend the line to Boston.

YAWN! IF the LA to Vegas Maglev didn't get built...

and the ORlando airport/Disney world maglev didn't get built...

This will certainly NOT happen... esp if the Delta/Southwest/US Air shuttles have a say in it!

“It hasn’t launched all the way yet,” said John Merrigan, who co-chairs the lobbying practice at DLA Piper, one of three lobbying firms Northeast Maglev has hired since March to track legislation impacting magnetic levitation transportation, including the transportation bill President Obama signed July 6. The two other lobbying firms are American Defense International and Commonwealth Research Associates, to whom the company has paid $10,000 and $8,400 in lobbying fees, respectively.

Wow - talk about fantasy land!  Who is authorizing this outlay of cash and where is it coming from?? 

I can only assume at this stage it's a covert way of throwing money into the hands of specific people.

Nice idea, but way ahead of it's political time.

/Mitch

Whew.

I don't really think that is going to happen... unless they close the NEC and simply rip it up and build the new Maglev.

Otherwise the "Not in my Yard" people will come out by the thousands.

Acela can handle Baltimore. The darn maglev will only be busy expending energy and dissipating it. Now NYC, Boston and the like is all good. Consider Richmond, Norfolk too.

If the United States is going to have a rail/mag/mono system that competes with short haul 737's and Embraers across the country built by networks... it's going to have to come up with a monster amount of money equivalent to the old Interstate Highway System when it was first started.

It's going to take a long time before it will be running well and beating airport security hassles, airlines in travel times. (Especially during winter...)