Japan in bullet-train sales race
High-speed demonstration aims for U.S. business
Posted: December 21, 2009 at 4:25 a.m.
In this 2008 file photo, the engine of an N700 bullet train is transported through a street in Fukuoka, Japan.
On a desolate stretch of track just before midnight, when all passenger lines have been put to bed, a juiced-up Japanese bullet train goes online and accelerates to more than 200 miles per hour. The 700-ton train, about a quarter of a mile long, whooshes by rice paddies in seconds.
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Business, Pages 25 on 12/21/2009
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