The station continues

I decided to delete the walls and start a new. I am working on one wall now. When i finish it i can just copy and paste them next to each other, like in my screen shots. It is looking way better than before. And it will only get better.

The start of a new beginning

We have started to make our train station. Me, Joel, Ray and Leah are making it. I have started to do the out side; walls, stairs and a little of the roof. Its a working progress. I stuffed up at the start and started making it all over again. But now i know what I'm doing. Here are some picyures of what i have done so far. The colour is wrong and there will be way more to do, so when it is finished, it will be awesome.

Research -3-

Maglev Trains Of The Future

There is a new form of rail transportation that will revolutionise transportation of the 21^st the
way that airplanes did in the 20^th century. Maglev is short for 'Magnetic Levitation'. Japan and
Germany are both developing this technology. The basic idea is that these trains will levitate a distance above
the guide rails and travel at speeds of up to 500km/h. This will help to satisfy the demands of today's fast
paced society.

Electromagnetic Propulsion

The opposite poles of magnets attract each other and like ends repel, this is the simple principle behind electromagnetic propulsion. However electromagnets attract metal objects while charged with electricity, the pull is temporary and dependent on the charge. For a train to operate three major components must be present in the system: a powerful electrical power source, large guidance magnets attached to the underside of the train, a track lined with metal coils.

age courtesy of Railway Technical Institute

The magnetized coil running along the track, is called the guideway. This will repel the large magnets on the underside of the carriage, causing the train to hover above the track. The electric current supplied to the coils in the guideway is constantly alternating and uniquely pull and push the train along the guideway. The key advantage of the Maglev train is that it floats on a cushion of air, with virtually no friction. This allows the train to reach such high Image courtesy Howstuffworks.com speeds!

Transrapid International are developing an electromagnetic suspension system (EMS). They have already demonstrated that it can reach 500Km/h with people on board. This speed can get a pasenger from Paris to Rome in 2 hours. The Swiss are considering a new 700km system. The developers of these trains will most likely be connecting major cities up to 1600km away from each other, linking the most busy routes and exploiting their niche by being the fastest mode of accessable transport. The development of such a high speed network has been stunted by the high investment required. The costs of producing the guideway at the moment still remains quite high at $10 million to $30million per mile. However this is not so outrageous in comparison with cost per mile highway of $20million to $30million. The trains could begin their first commuter services by 2004.

Research -2-

How cool are these trains that little kids came up with. Don't pretend there not cool.
And also some pictures of flinders street station.

Research -1-

The MAGLEV There's something very unusual about these futuristic trains. They don't have any wheels! Instead, they float above the track. Maglev is short for magnetic levitation [mag-NET-ick lev-ee-TAY-shun] which means using magnets to make the train rise up from the track, and it means they can go faster. Some Maglevs have already been built in Germany and Japan, where trains have already run at an incredible 552kph (343 mph) on a test track. It is expected that Maglev trains will reach speeds of up to 800 kph (500 mph) by 2020.

Train experts are proposing an even more futuristic development of Maglevs. It is envisaged that these 'floating' trains would run through vacuum tubes. A vacuum is a space without any air in it. It would mean trains could go faster - up to 3,000 kph (1,684 mph). Not only is it super-fast, but it means it wouldn't take as much energy as other kinds of transport.

Vacuum tubes could be built all over the world - under the sea and across continents. A tube could be built under the Atlantic Ocean, and that would mean you could get from England to America in less than two hours (it takes 6 or 7 hours by plane). It would cost about £20 billion to build a tube like that. Tony Roche, who is the president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers said "Some might see this as a pie-in-the-sky idea, but a lot can happen in 50 years." This was written by Robin Gray of the National Railway Museum.

My Tarin Station Ideas

- It would have to be run down and/or renovated.

- If run down the station would be crumbled and chunks missing. But would still be a standing building.

- If run down and renovated, it would have chunks missing, but new concert and wood in those places, maybe steam pipes and other pipes sticking out of everywhere and massive bolts and steal covering places.

- If new station, it can look similar, but futuristic, slick plastic and chrome everywhere.

- Trains move on beams of light. Trains move mega ultra fast.

- Train technology lost so the run on mist, because nobody knows how to make steam.

- Rocket Jet Trains

- Train tracks made out of beams of light

- Train tracks made out of same tracks

- Train tracks made out of magnets

- Trains float in tubes

- Trains stay stationary, but platforms move.

- No trains, teleporters instead. People line up in lines and walk through these teleporters that are about the size of telephone booths.

- Big Chrono Sphere. A generator that holds something similar to a sphere and energy waves are calculated and stored up giving a huge burst of energy to transfer matter (people) in so time and in so space. People would sit in chrono chambers and they are transferred from one chamber to another chamber at a different location.

- Station clock: sundial, analogue clock, digital clock.

- People float through tubes like in ‘Futurama’ from one platform at a station to another.

- Analogue trains

- The robotic squid transports people. Like a submarine. Train tracks are replaced with big canal channels which the robotic squids use for movement between stations.

Jacob the Rich Bum

Jacob was kicked out of home at the age of 17. Five years have passed since then and now he was the poorest bum living on the streets of Melbourne. Other bums where richer than him, heck, little babies where richer than him. He had minus money. His money problems where so bad he was below red, it was more like a black hole. He tried getting a job, no body wanted him. He tried busking with his guitar; the money he made went towards his dept to society. He died from starving, he went to heaven, and they didn’t want him. So he went to Hell. They didn’t want him either. So he came back alive, and at this point of the story, his life changed dramatically.

During his travels of the After Life he met a man. A man who was great at doing stuff. Jacob learnt all of the stuff the man knew, and was that knowledgeable of stuff, he figured out how to come back alive. It took him 1000 years, but he came back alive. After he came back to life he realised that the place he new had changed. A great war had broken out between Melbourne and Sydney and now the place has became war trashed and corrupt. The war has past now but tension still draws between Melbourne and Sydney.

Jacob was horrified of what had happen to his once lived street home. He decided to do something about it. With all his knowledge about stuff, and the 50 cents in his bank account that he forgot all about, had accumulated over the past 1000 years he was able to help rebuild the city. But most importantly he decided to build a real cool casino under the Yarra River. It is the richest place in Melbourne. He figured that everyone was a basted and never gave him money when he was a bum, so now he will take the money from them. Jacob still doesn’t have a home. He still lives on the streets. He doesn’t want the populace to know that he is rich, or he will be hunted down and killed for his money.

Six months later the head of the Vegans visited him from above. He thought it was some sort of angel that was sent from heaven. His memory triggered that he was rejected from heaven, and was a big jerk to this ‘angel’. The Vegan wanted to welcome him to their safe haven, called Vegan Land because of all the great work he had contributed to the city. But Jacob was convinced it was an angel from Heaven, and didn’t want to listen to what the vegan had to say. Plus he wasn’t into only eating light bulbs. He now seeks vengeance on Vegan Land thinking it is Heaven. With all the money rolling in from the casino and all the stuff he knows, he is now building a secret Ninja Army to help take over Vegan Land and be the new God. But to his unknowledgeable stuff that he lacks, he will find out that it is Vegan Land and not Heaven and he can never be God.

This concludes the story of the richest bum in Melbourne.

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