Vehicles (3e) - Maglev Speeds?

[Phil Masters]

Originally Posted by dirtysnowball

With its monorail track carried up on pylons it won't be buried in the next sandstorm, and with the whole structure webbed with sensors the track will safely shut itself down if something gets damaged.

I'll buy the rest, but I doubt that an equatorial railway, built on a budget, is all going to be on raised pylons.

Though the bits where it crosses wide expanses of Marineris imply a fair bit of engineering, to be sure.