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Put it this way: the Shinkansen plying the Tokaido route have access to some 180, 000 potential passengers per mile of high-speed track.
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The small section of high-speed track will be connected at both ends to existing lines used by Amtrak, the government-owned passenger railway.
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The high-speed track suits the Red Bull car and there remain questions about the Brawn car's ability to be competitive in the lower ambient temperatures that are usual at Spa-Francorchamps.
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By the end of last year, the Railways Ministry had overseen the construction of 8, 358 kilometers of high-speed rail track.
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While there's nothing like screaming around a track at high speed, doing so in a whisper-quiet car is a new experience altogether.
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The decommissioning of the high speed ring reduced the length of the track from 10 kilometers to 5.8.
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It only has one recognized high-speed link: the recently-opened stretch of Eurostar track to Paris and Brussels.
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To exploit the power of modern high-speed locomotives, engineers resort to tilting trains and special track free of sharp bends: it's cheaper than tearing up the existing rails and starting again.
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It turns out, she writes, that the whole diagnosis is based on one experiment from the 1960s in which doctors strapped 50 monkeys onto a track and slammed them into a wall at high speed.
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But a grassroots project called the Bioweathermap was launched a year ago to discover and track the worldwide movements of these organisms using high-speed DNA sequencing of the biological residue on paper currency, one of the most oft-handled and well-traveled of objects.
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While all of these improvements are greatly needed, funding high-speed rail piecemeal and state-by-state instead of as a federal project means that train and track technology may differ.
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