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Ready To Levitate?(Periscope)(Germany to use magnetic levitation trains)(Brief article)
Byline: John Sparks
TRAINS
Germans take pride in their engineering prowess, so the 23-years-and-counting it's taken to put their zoomiest invention into service is not exactly a national ego booster. But after a string of false starts, a magnetic-levitation train that floats atop a cushion of invisible forces is finally set to appear on (or, more precisely, above) German soil. The new line linking Munich's airport with the city center should cut the travel time from 40 minutes to 10 and cost €1.85 billion, with federal, state and city governments footing the bill. But will it actually ...
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