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ZEFIRO 380 – $4 Billion super green trains for China to boost infrastructure
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Califiornia-Nevada Maglev Project Builds up Steam
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Califiornia-Nevada Maglev Project Builds up Steam
The California-Nevada Interstate Maglev Project is an effort to link major travel destinations in Southern California and Nevada with a super-speed, magnetically levitated (maglev) ground transportation system. There is no other high-speed form of transportation that is safer, more comfortable, more reliable, more energy efficient and more environmentally friendly than Maglev. Additionally, maglev within this corridor can be constructed within the same cost-per-mile as European style high-speed rail according to the range published by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA).
Intended principally to serve intercity and airport travel markets, the system will span from Las Vegas, Nevada to Anaheim in Southern California via Primm, Barstow, Victorville and Ontario. The Project has been the subject of study, planning and development for more than two decades, most recently under the sponsorship of the California-Nevada Super Speed Train Commission, an agency
A Montreal-based train and plane maker has racked up another big win in the Middle Kingdom with a $4-billion (U.S.) contract for a Chinese joint venture to supply 80 next-generation, super high-speed trains to the Ministry of Railways. The deal – of which Bombardier’s share is valued at $2-billion – is for the company’s sleek Zefiro high-speed train and marks the latest in a series of increasingly important transactions for Bombardier in China. The Ministry of Railways has awarded a contract for 80 high speed trains to the Qingdao-based Bombardier Sifang joint venture. 
