China 'considering' building high-speed rail line from Beijing to the United States

[danger007]

Not a good idea... it takes lot resources and risks... not possible in this century. ..

 

[TaiShang]

We are up to big things。

Some may realize，some may not。

A country and its people need to have dreams and ambitions。

Yes. That's the essence of becoming a super power. It takes dreamers, a lot of them, that think beyond the conjectures.

It does not really matter some never come into being.

Bad idea. Flying is faster in this case. Chinese engineers should focus more energy on ws15.

Different areas, different specialties. A country needs every sort of entrepreneurs

 

[piaoke789]

 

[piaoke789]

View attachment 27954 View attachment 27955 View attachment 27956 View attachment 27957 View attachment 27959 View attachment 27960 View attachment 27961 View attachment 27962 View attachment 27963 View attachment 27954 View attachment 27955 View attachment 27956 View attachment 27957 View attachment 27959 View attachment 27960 View attachment 27961 View attachment 27962 View attachment 27963 View attachment 27954 View attachment 27955 View attachment 27956 View attachment 27957 View attachment 27959 View attachment 27960 View attachment 27961 View attachment 27962 View attachment 27963 View attachment 27954 View attachment 27955 View attachment 27956 View attachment 27957 View attachment 27959 View attachment 27960 View attachment 27961 View attachment 27962 View attachment 27963 View attachment 27954 View attachment 27955 View attachment 27956 View attachment 27957 View attachment 27959 View attachment 27960 View attachment 27961 View attachment 27962 View attachment 27963 View attachment 27954 View attachment 27955 View attachment 27956 View attachment 27957 View attachment 27959 View attachment 27960 View attachment 27961 View attachment 27962 View attachment 27963 View attachment 27954 View attachment 27955 View attachment 27956 View attachment 27957 View attachment 27959 View attachment 27960 View attachment 27961 View attachment 27962 View attachment 27963 View attachment 27954 View attachment 27955 View attachment 27956 View attachment 27957 View attachment 27959 View attachment 27960 View attachment 27961 View attachment 27962 View attachment 27963 View attachment 27954 View attachment 27955 View attachment 27956 View attachment 27957 View attachment 27959 View attachment 27960 View attachment 27961 View attachment 27962 View attachment 27963 View attachment 27954 View attachment 27955 View attachment 27956 View attachment 27957 View attachment 27959 View attachment 27960 View attachment 27961 View attachment 27962 View attachment 27963 View attachment 27954 View attachment 27955 View attachment 27956 View attachment 27963 View attachment 27962 View attachment 27961 View attachment 27960 View attachment 27959 View attachment 27957 View attachment 27956 View attachment 27955 View attachment 27955

 

[tranquilium]

IMO, if you wish to dream dream of a Chinese Google/GE/Intel instead. Spending vast resources on a railway line seems utterly silly to me especially when air travel is so much easier. Just my 2 cents.

It's not about passenger transportation. The whole idea behind connecting SE Asia, Europe, etc has always about trade. Planes do carry passengers faster, but they are economically unfeasible for bulk good transportation. Alaska and by extension, Canada, are both major resource exporting regions and it will be great to connect them into the grid.

Plus, trains can be powered by electricity within foreseeable future. Cargo ships and planes has to rely on fossil fuels.

 

[BoQ77]

high speed rail is the item china just stolen fm japan. so they promote it just like the way they proud of renewal liaoning ac. the air transport still not the thing china has advantage, so they ignore it. anyway hsl is not for heavy and long range transport

 

[bolo]

IMO, if you wish to dream dream of a Chinese Google/GE/Intel instead. Spending vast resources on a railway line seems utterly silly to me especially when air travel is so much easier. Just my 2 cents.

Fair assessment. Agreed.

 

[MarkusS]

China 'considering' building high-speed rail line from Beijing to the United States

Entire trip would take two days and run through Siberia

PUBLISHED : Friday, 09 May, 2014, 10:26am
UPDATED : Friday, 09 May, 2014, 10:35am

The Guardian


The project - nicknamed the “China-Russia plus America line”- would run for 13,000km, about 3,000km further than the Trans-Siberian Railway. Photo: AP

China is considering plans to build a high-speed railway line to the US, the country’s official media has reported.

The proposed line would begin in north-east China and run up through Siberia, pass through a tunnel underneath the Pacific Ocean then cut through Alaska and Canada to reach the continental US, according to a report in the state-run Beijing Times newspaper.

Crossing the Bering Strait in between Russia and Alaska would require about 200km (125 miles) of undersea tunnel, the paper said, citing Wang Mengshu, a railway expert at the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

“Right now we’re already in discussions. Russia has already been thinking about this for many years,” Wang said.

The project - nicknamed the “China-Russia plus America line” - would run for 13,000km, about 3,000km further than the Trans-Siberian Railway. The entire trip would take two days, with the train travelling at an average of 350kmh (220mph).

The reported plans leave ample room for scepticism. No other Chinese railway experts have come out in support of the proposed project. Whether the government has consulted Russia, the US or Canada is also unclear. The Bering Strait tunnel alone would require an unprecedented feat of engineering - it would be the world’s longest undersea tunnel - four times the length of the Channel Tunnel which connects France and England.

According to the state-run China Daily, the tunnel technology is “already in place” and will be used to build a high-speed railway between the south-east province of Fujian and Taiwan. “The project will be funded and constructed by China,” it said. “The details of this project are yet to be finalised.”

The Beijing Times listed the China-US line as one of four international high-speed rail projects currently in the works. The first is a line that would run from London via Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Kiev and Moscow, where it would split into two routes, one of which would run to China through Kazakhstan and the other through eastern Siberia.

The second line would begin in the far-western Chinese city of Urumqi and then run through Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Turkey to Germany. The third would begin in the south-western city of Kunming and end in Singapore. The routes are under various stages of planning and development, the paper said.

China 'considering' building high-speed rail line from Beijing to the United States | South China Morning Post

Why you show a picture of OUR german Transrapid? This is our train and China has no rights on it to build it.

Thats first.

2nd, there never will be such a track. USA and Canada would never allow China to build a railway through their land.

And no, Europe would also not allow it. Germany would block any attempt of China to build a railway here. All railways are owned from the DB in germany. A stateowned railway corporation and no foreign nation is allowed to build railways in germany. And thats for a good reason.

This article is a day dream

 

[qwerrty]

he just copy paste article from guardian. it's just stock photo for illustrative purpose only. no need to get your panties in a twist. LOL

 

[MarkusS]

I find it amazing how arrogant someone must be to believe that we would allow such a nonsense project on our land. No foreign nation is allowed to build railways in germany and EU as a whole. We have laws to prevent this madness. We would also not allow China to use our Transrapid technology, which WE have the patent for.

So you can forget this railway to europe already.

On the other hand USA would never allow China to build some monstrosity like this through their alaska national parks. This would cause mass demonstrations of unimaginable scale and i assure you that no democratic government would ever be able to sell bullshit like this.

 

[Yeti]

Doubt this would make economic sense, I find it unfeasible we are doing hi-speed trains in UK now too called cross-rail but many studies have shown it to be unfeasible.

 

[mike2000]

loool biggest joke of the century. We will never allow a non western country to build such a massive rail project in our continent, much less china. Also the train passing through Alaska you think america will allow this? even if it was feasible economically, the U.S will never allow it to happen. crazy stuff. Also China railway companies CNR and CSR are now growing so big so fast and absorbing the technology they bought from the french/German companies, that they are now beginning to threaten Western and Japanese companies, in fact i read recently that CSR and CNR are now the 1st and 2nd largest rolling stock manufacturers ahead of bombardier,siemens and Alstom from which they acquired some of their technologies through JV. so our companies should be careful on how they do deals with such countries, else it will affect us soon(well its started already anyway).
As for this project, its always good to dream though, shows the country has big/great ambitions. But its just a dream and will never happen justifiably..IMO.

 

[Ayush]

go for it.

 

[MarkusS]

go for it.

lol, give me a reason why we would want a chinese mega project in europe which would have 0 acceptance in our population and would damage our interests?

Same goes for the USA and Canada who would never allow it. Beside that its a nonsense project.

1. It is too slow for passenger transport over such long distances

2. It is too fast and consumes too much energy for freight transport

 

[Ayush]

lol, give me a reason why we would want a chinese mega project in europe which would have 0 acceptance in our population and would damage our interests?

Same goes for the USA and Canada who would never allow it. Beside that its a nonsense project.

1. It is too slow for passenger transport over such long distances

2. It is too fast and consumes too much energy for freight transport

yes,i know, but such a train journey sounds exciting,and yes i highly doubt if it is feasible/possible..