In truth, "levitating" trains really do exist - but they are properly called maglev trains, and they are high-tech marvels.    From Wordnik.com.  [BlueOregon] Reference

I only had to wait five minutes for the next maglev.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

It is not quite as fast as the Japanese maglev train.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2007] Reference

WIAN: But skeptics say maglev trains aren't worth the cost.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2004] Reference

That was all too obvious from the maglev, even at high speed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

So far China has the only maglev line in commercial operation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2004] Reference

The maglev arrived at eight-fifteen, and it was only a third full.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

Casey Wian looks at the future of maglev transportation in America.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2004] Reference

On Saturday morning, I took the hotel shuttle to the maglev station.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

After a pause, I asked Paula, "Did you have any trouble with the maglev?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

So I stood in the September sunlight, waiting on the platform for the maglev.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

That meant traveling as close as possible by maglev and then taking a flitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

For all that, right after noon on Friday, I was walking down to the local maglev.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

And the maglev train, the world's fastest, stands ready to whisk visitors to town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shanghai Surprise] Reference

We pulled into the waiting area for the Cherry Creek maglev station at eleven-twenty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

She crossed the maglev platform, her eyes scanning the space beyond the security gate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

I always enjoyed that stretch of the ride, where the maglev passed the floodplain park.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

In a 2003 test run, a Japanese maglev reached a world record of 581 kilometers an hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [JR Tokai's 'Maglev' Rail Project] Reference

Japan, Germany and China have all scaled back maglev plans because of financial concerns.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2004] Reference

The maglev was still half full when I got off at the Capitol Complex station, the north one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

It took less than ten minutes to reach the drop-off area of the mid-Old Tech maglev station.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

Supporters say maglev trains would reduce freeway and airport congestion and cut air pollution.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2004] Reference

I had to take the high-speed maglev from Denv to Epaso, and then charter a flitter to Monahans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

The only commercially operating maglev train is in Shanghai, which relied on German technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Central Japan Railway Plans] Reference

The hardware is certainly impressive — the maglev trains, shiny new airports, and modern skyscrapers.    From Wordnik.com.  [China’s Silicon Ceiling] Reference

I wasn't in that much of a hurry, not when my return maglev didn't depart until eight the next morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

Less than an hour and a half after the maglev had left Cruces, the southern fringes of Albuquerque appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

My timing was good enough that I only had to wait five minutes before I swung onto the maglev, the first car.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

The showcase of Shanghai infrastructure is the German-made maglev train from the Pudong International Airport.    From Wordnik.com.  [Germany Finds the Net] Reference

That didn't help much, because I'd just shifted waiting at Jameston to more waiting at the Minpolis maglev station.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

As I walked hurriedly from the house, on my way to the local maglev station, I had no way of knowing which it might be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

Once the maglev got me to Minpolis, I took the local maglev shuttle to the flitterport, where I waited and studied more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

With that, the stainless steel gate to his right — a gate that would have stopped a maglev at full acceleration — opened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

At one-forty, I left the house, setting the much more elaborate external security, and began walking down to the maglev station.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

Hieronymous was three long blocks north of the Capitol North maglev station, and I was almost ten minutes late, something I hated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

I wasn't exactly in a mood to trust anyone as I walked, close to totally paranoid, southward toward the maglev station. chapter 40.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference