High!

After finishing the Jovian moon system in PoVSolar (for the time being), 
now back to one of my other projects: Port Whatmough and its fabled 
maglev-based personal traffic system, better know as MyMaglev. 
Currently, there is nothing more than a modest demonstration course, 
limited to 5 metres per second as maximum speed for the (yet-to-program) 
personal carriages, due to the narrow bend radius of 15 metres.

It is a maglev system on a 60-cm gauge; in the future, there will be 
also conventional long-distance trains on a wider gauge as well as a 
suspended version of MyMaglev (similar to the Wuppertal 
Schwebebahn/Eugen Langen Monorail Suspension Railway in Germany 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn), but, like said, as 
a maglev rather than a conventional railway).

Port Whatmough is the largest city on Whatmough, an Earth-like moon of 
temperate gas giant HD 28185 b 
(http://www.extrasolar.net/planettour.asp?StarCatId=normal&PlanetId=158),
colonized since 2178. City and moon are named in honor of John Whatmough 
(1973-2005), space artist and founder of "Extrasolar Visions". The time 
setting of this sci-fi world to be developed will be around 2300, when 
Port Whatmough has grown to a size of several million inhabitants.

I hope that, simultaneously to the development of MyMaglev, I will be 
able to also build substantial parts of the city itself during the next 
years - contributions are always welcome!

The two images attached here show the maglev "rail" at the starting 
point of demonstration rides (where I will add a platform soon) and an 
overview of the whole course from a height of 400 metres.

Also, an animation of the (back then not yet closed) course is available 
at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAZCqvYjY8c .

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

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