RE: A ride on the fastest train in the world
Don't know about the Chinese maglev line, but the high-speed train
from Madrid to Sevilla had no stops & made the trip in about 2 hrs,
much faster than you could drive. The thing that makes high-speed
rail work is a long distance between stops. NYC - DC would work,
but the Acela trans would have to run non-stop. I gather that they
don't operate this way.