This essay is on Magneticly Levitated Trains.... It explains basicly how they work as well as how they have a future in transportation because they are very efficiant.

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Introduction The future of transportation lies with the Magnetically Levitated, or "MagLev," train. It combines all the benefits of an airplane and the benefits of trains to produce a "Flying Train" (2) "MagLev technology was pioneered on Long Island New York in the 1960's by two Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists, James Powell and Gordon Danby... who used super conducting magnets for MagLev trains (9)." It is a project that has since been dropped by the US due …

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