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Flying Trains and Flying Whales: Radical New Ideas for Freight Transportation

September 17, 2018

The future of rail transportation literally may be up in the air.

Entrepreneurs and engineers from around the world have proposed radical concepts for hauling freight and passengers, including a multistory flying train that is pulled through the air by an electric-powered boom. Russian inventor Dahir Semenov says his flying train concept could carry up to 2,000 passengers (or cargo) and travel at nearly twice the speed of China’s Fuxing, the world’s fastest bullet train, which tops out at 248 mph.

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