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from the train's-future-is-"up-in-the-air" dept.
Germany is auctioning off a maglev train that officials once hoped would speed up transport at home and become a major export success.
The Transrapid train is on show Tuesday and Wednesday to would-be buyers at a former test track in northwestern Germany, near the Dutch border. Bidding closes on Oct. 25.
The government hasn't set a minimum bid price for the train, a prototype built in 2007 for an abandoned high-speed maglev link project that would have linked Munich with its airport.
A Transrapid line went into operation between Shanghai and its airport, but various proposals for links in Germany flopped.
In 2006, 23 people were killed when a maglev train crashed with a maintenance vehicle on the German test track. The track hasn't been used since 2011.
Sad news for maglev fans.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday October 12 2016, @10:06PM
There are hundreds of miles at the end of runways where planes are an easy target for bad guys using the overly powerful weapons they can buy for free in the US, but neither the weapons nor the planes have been banned or abandoned as high-profile terror objects..