Central Japan Railway Co. resumed test runs on Thursday of its high-speed magnetic levitation Shinkansen train on a course in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo.
It was the first test since September 2011 and the first on the course, which has been extended from 18.4 kilometers to 42.8 kilometers.The railway operator, better known as JR Tokai, tested the latest commercially viable five-car L0 maglev train. The company hopes to eventually test a 12-car train on the same course.
