D-Roc
10-15-2008, 12:51 PM
Broyles compares the elevator incident to the Maglev Train Disaster in Tokyo 9 months earlier.
I was wondering whether this was another real-life tie-in that the creators sometimes do. There was a Maglev (Magnetic Levitation Train) disaster in Germany 2006:
LATHEN, Germany - A high-tech train that floats on powerful magnetic fields smashed into a maintenance car on an elevated test track Friday, killing 23 people and injuring 10 - the first fatalities on a maglev train.
Initial indications were that human error, not sophisticated maglev technology, was to blame for putting the maintenance vehicle on the track at the same time as the Transrapid train. The train was moving at 125 mph but can reach speeds of up to 270 mph.
The speeding train's low nose scooped up the maintenance car, hurling it against the front and along the roof of the sleek, advanced train. Rescuers had to climb fire ladders and use cranes to reach the 13-foot-high track to clear debris and retrieve the dead and injured. Seats and other wreckage were left strewn beneath the track.
Maglev trains - short for magnetic levitation - use powerful magnets that allow the train to skim along its guideway without touching it, reducing friction and increasing speeds. The Transrapid, which floats about half an inch on a cushion of magnetism, was made by Transrapid International, a joint venture between Siemens AG and ThyssenKrupp AG.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/international/666977/maglev_train_crash_in_germany_kills_23/index.html
However I couldn't find any info on such an event happening in Tokyo in 2007, so the one Broyles mensitons must be made up, and only based on the Germany event.
I was wondering whether this was another real-life tie-in that the creators sometimes do. There was a Maglev (Magnetic Levitation Train) disaster in Germany 2006:
LATHEN, Germany - A high-tech train that floats on powerful magnetic fields smashed into a maintenance car on an elevated test track Friday, killing 23 people and injuring 10 - the first fatalities on a maglev train.
Initial indications were that human error, not sophisticated maglev technology, was to blame for putting the maintenance vehicle on the track at the same time as the Transrapid train. The train was moving at 125 mph but can reach speeds of up to 270 mph.
The speeding train's low nose scooped up the maintenance car, hurling it against the front and along the roof of the sleek, advanced train. Rescuers had to climb fire ladders and use cranes to reach the 13-foot-high track to clear debris and retrieve the dead and injured. Seats and other wreckage were left strewn beneath the track.
Maglev trains - short for magnetic levitation - use powerful magnets that allow the train to skim along its guideway without touching it, reducing friction and increasing speeds. The Transrapid, which floats about half an inch on a cushion of magnetism, was made by Transrapid International, a joint venture between Siemens AG and ThyssenKrupp AG.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/international/666977/maglev_train_crash_in_germany_kills_23/index.html
However I couldn't find any info on such an event happening in Tokyo in 2007, so the one Broyles mensitons must be made up, and only based on the Germany event.