>>1814471>Because having convention rails would defeat the point of maglevI mean, when it's levitating either a road or rails would make no difference
>using rubber wheels + road means that you don't need to worry about derailment caused by the wheels not aligning to the railway tracks when the wheels lower as the train decelerates and landsit seems that there would be very little offset that would be corrected each time by the electromagnetic walls (I'm looking at their animation), if you consider "conventional" bogie wheels, this does not seem to be a problem, no?
though they would need extra sand I guess
>their infrastructure being placed on the sides (magnets) instead of mostly above the train (catenary) means that retrofitting (which obviously means disruption of conventional Shinkansen services and any other potential problems) is out of the question.but what about expanding the stations with one or more platform.s (and line.s)?
like they did with older shinkansens iirc
to avoid digging under the stations (it seems very expensive compared to adding a new platform on the surface) and interfering with conventional lines
