But members of the Virginia Beach City Council appear so enamored of the possibilities for a solar-powered magnetic-levitation train - An extension to the Navy base! Another to Greenbrier! - that they're losing sight of reality.
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The company assembled elevated tracks on campus in 2001, with the goal of providing a test bed and a transportation network for its "dumb track, smart train" system.
It didn't work. Despite years of effort, the company could never get the system operating.
Grifters gonna grift. Marks gonna give them your tax money.