Carectomy.com: All Aboard the Train that Never Stops!

Posted: July 2nd, 2008 | Author: Steve | Filed under: Sustainability | Tags: Rail, Sustainability, Train, Transportation | View Comments

Carectomy brings us this cool, new concept for increasing the efficiency of a train by allowing the bulk of it to stay in constant motion:

“Yu-Lun envisions a small separated car perched atop the train. When the train enters a station, this car slides along on elevated rails that smoothly and gradually remove the car from the rest of the train and bring it to a stop.” At the same time, a second car picks up new passengers.

The animation is very cool, albeit very slow in getting to the point.

I like this idea, especially if the design incorporated a maglev (magnetically-leviated) element to it. If you theoretically could combine the reduced friction of maglev wth the added efficiency of not having to speed up/slow down most of the train’s mass, this form of transportation would probably be way ahead of most rail and light-years ahead of automobiles.

Carectomy.com: Removing Cars from People – All Aboard the Train that Never Stops!