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BJL_Hen: Shanghai airport is rather unusual in it's design...
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BJL_Hen: But I have to say it makes for interesting pictures...
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BJL_Hen: And I have to say, that place is huge...
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BJL_Hen: But very well organized...
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BJL_Hen: The "Maglav" or magnetic levitation train...
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BJL_Hen: This puppy really moves...30km in 7 minutes
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BJL_Hen: "Blaine is a pain..."
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BJL_Hen: "And that is the truth..."
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BJL_Hen: Here I am before the train gets going
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BJL_Hen: The inside of the trainis very similar to a plane...
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BJL_Hen: It gets up to speed pretty quickly...
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BJL_Hen: I shut the flash off so the speed would show up better...
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BJL_Hen: The train starts wobbling a bit after 100 km but it's not that bad...
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BJL_Hen: It steadys a bit at about 200...
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BJL_Hen: But after that it's rattling along pretty good...
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BJL_Hen: I was suprised that the train ride was so smooth at these speeds...
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BJL_Hen: And I couldn't get over that just as...
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BJL_Hen: The train gets up to top speed...
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BJL_Hen: It's basically time to...
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BJL_Hen: Start slowing down again...
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BJL_Hen: Top speed...431 km...it's a really quick trip...better than a taxi...
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BJL_Hen: And this is what it looks like to be traveling at that speed...well sort of...
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BJL_Hen: The track as we move along...
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BJL_Hen: Shanghai is a bright busy city in places...
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BJL_Hen: Here we go...
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BJL_Hen: Unfortunately I didn't have a lot of time to see much of Shanghai...
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BJL_Hen: I was shooting everything I could...
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BJL_Hen: Even this chopstick shop...
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BJL_Hen: Here I am at the Bund looking out over at the PuDong section of Shanghai...
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BJL_Hen: We got there late so the lights were shut down for some of the buildings...