To continue the transportation theme for today, as we had the new trains, now something that was planned to be built 30 years ago, back in 1970s. It was called the “super string transportation system” and was claimed to come to replace the existing rail road technologies.
The steel cords under great tension had to be stretched on the polls across all the country to support the high speed (up to 500 km/h - 300 mph) trains movement.
The project was pretty fast approved by Soviet government because of its cheap cost if compared to conventional rail roads - no need to prepare Earth surface - just put some polls and you are ready to go.
As always, it started with just sketches on paper, made in the manner it looked to be contemporary in 1970s.
New Trains
Now they have new trains going from Moscow to St.Petersburg with the speeds up to 300 km/h (200 mph).
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