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Old 12-29-2009, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by HuskyMan View Post
time to bring in the German high speed mag lev trains. 300 MPH comfort, starbucks coffee served up along with your favorite reading materials. no idiot drivers on the road, no high priced gasoline, plus reduce the maintenance cost on your cars, simply leave the driving to the train operator. Europe, Japan and now China are doing it, the United States, of course, will be the last to get a descent high speed rail system.
How will you go about guarding the thousands of miles of rail systems that such trains run on from the sabotage that could easily cause a catastrophic wreck at 300 MPH? What would stop an attacker from driving a cement mixer into the path of a train traveling 300MPH?

I’m a big fan of train travel but from a security point of view it’s a disaster waiting to happen.
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