Testing EMS carriage at Novocherkassk Locomotive Plaby, 1997

Rostov Region, Russia. Workers test a cutting-edge magnetic suspension carriage at Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant. Not less safe than common metro trains, but much more comfortable and cheaper, this technology was already practised in Germany and Japan. Valery Matytsin/ITAR-TASS

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Cheaper Comfortable Cutting-edge Less Magnetic Matytsin Metro Novocherkassk Practised Rostov Safe Suspension

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