Talk:SCMaglev

Disadvantages of JR-Maglev
JR-Maglev systems get affected easily by snow, ice or severe cold. 58.138.45.196 (talk) 05:28, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * By all means, find a reliable source for that assertion, and add it to the article. Tim PF (talk) 07:22, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

"JR-Maglev"
So, the term "JR-Maglev" isn't a thing. Nowhere in JR Central's English literature is the system referred to as anything but the SCMAGLEV (all caps) or the Superconducting Maglev. See: SCMAGLEV and Railway Park (http://museum.jr-central.co.jp/en/), references to the system in their Data Books (http://english.jr-central.co.jp/company/company/others/data-book/). The only place that the term JR-Maglev is used is on Wikipedia and unofficial blogs and such that are referencing this page.

I can confirm this as a representative of a firm working directly with JR Central in the U.S. We are told to use the term 'SCMAGLEV' in all marketing materials. The disconnect on Wikipedia has caused quite a bit of confusion.

I created a page for 'SCMAGLEV' and redirected it to this page for the time being, but unless there is objection, I plan to swap the names, so that JR-Maglev redirects to 'SCMAGLEV' instead, and "SCMAGLEV" becomes the focus of the article. --Pdovak (talk) 16:02, 20 July 2013 (UTC)


 * I agree with your comments about the apparently fictional "JR-Maglev" name, and have gone ahead and boldly moved the article to "SCMaglev". Note that the stylistic "SCMAGLEV" in all-caps is a non-starter on Wikipedia, as it contravenes our manual of style guidelines at WP:MOSCAPS and WP:MOSTM, even if JR Central likes to write it as "SCMAGLEV". --DAJF (talk) 01:04, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

WJR crash
Should there not be at least a small reference to the crash caused by WJR's cultural obsession with speed of service? This article feels a little like a corporate puff-piece on tech progress, with no historical or cultural context. 67.127.52.82 (talk) 09:04, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

relative passing speed record
The article has a chart on this without any explanation and even links the term to another article, but that doesn't even mention it. --Espoo (talk) 13:45, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

The speeds seem to have confused the km/h to mile conversion? >1000 km/h nears the speed of sound.
 * Yes, that is how fast they are going. Relative speed means the speeds of the two trains passing each other are summed, so each one was going at over 500 km/h. --Ita140188 (talk) 16:11, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

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Issues with SCMaglev

 * How are the super conducting magnets cooled down?
 * I heard in a youtube video, they are cooled with liquid helium. This is a rather expensive material and is more or less used up over a certain time. This would be a serious downside compared to wheel based designs and increase costs (which contradicts the original cost arguments).
 * The German Transrapid system has been finished years ago and hasn't seen any adoption besides the real-life-demonstrator in Shanghai. What makes SCMaglev better compared to that system? --SaroEngels (talk) 11:30, 25 November 2021 (UTC)