Letter from Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College advising Texas Gov. Rick Perry to seize the day with Tubular Rail.
- Letter from Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College advising Texas Gov. Rick Perry to seize the day with Tubular Rail.
- Letter from Ohio development officials to the company offering to help assemble a manufacturing supply chain. The state, despite repeated attempts to engage it, has done nothing further than send this letter, the value of which is little known.
- Tubular Rail is pictured here running north on High St. in Columbus to The Ohio State University, which has wanted a people mover system for decades but has failed to act on it.
- The concept of Tubular Rail is simple: take apart the conventional train and put it back together differently: make the O-ring stanchions the engine; make the car passive. It runs on electricity, not carbon fuels, and can be powered with solar cells. It can also take broadband Internet, cell phone service and use wind energy whereever it goes; 70% of it can be built under roof and trucked to the site, where deployment is impact sensitive.
- Tubular Rail technology can ford freeways with easy and little disruption, as this graphic of it running to a stadium shows.
- For urban settings, Tubular Rail can be installed easily and with less disturbance to existing infrastructure of business than can conventional grade-level trains, trolleys or light rail.
- Stations for Tubular Rail are limited only to the imagination. They can easily be built in urban, rural or suburban settings.
- Land use benefits from Tubular Rail technology, too, because it doesn't need to be sited by freight tracks that conventional trains must use.
- As shown in this picture of TR technology set in Chicago, because grade-level tracks are not needed, capital costs can be lowered by 50% or more.
- Imagine a TR train running in and out of Kings Island or Cedar Point, venues where it would be unthinkable to have a conventional train running.
- Running along side or in the middle of a street or a freeway is no problem for Tubular Rail, as it's "impact sensitive" design reduces disruption to existing traffic flows or infrastructure.
- Even if Ohio doesn't get it, or want to get it because it's tied to old, slow train technology, Tubular Rail knows other countries will be interested. It has been in touch with Mexico, Malaysia and other countries who value its design because their densities require new thinking beyond grade-level train systems.
- During the time Chicago was vying for World Fair status, Tubular Rail presented itself to key members of that city's brain trust.
- On Oct. 19, 2009, at the invitation of College of Engineering at UNLV, Tubular Rail participated in a forum on new transportation technologies. With four American, global companies on stage with it, TR made a strong case and provided a new route connecting Los Angles with Las Vegas that offered a tie-in to Phoenix. UNLV is partnering with Nevada's university system to build a transportation demonstration park on land outside Las Vegas.
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