The nuclear power train is one of the most insane systems in the world.

The Australian road trains could get more kicks from the nuclear power systems. When Russians created their nuclear-powered trains they didn't have PoNu (Portable Nuclear Reactors). 

When engineers use those container-size nuclear reactors turning, the train to nuclear power is a very easy process. The engineers must just put the portable nuclear reactor into one of the wagons. 

Then the electric wires will connect to the electric locomotive. But nuclear power could use in one of the most futuristic transportation systems. That is the train that can travel on regular highways. 

There is made plans for that kind of transportation system. But the problem with those systems is the power source. Nuclear power offers a very capable system for energy production and also for land-traveling vehicles. 

The portable nuclear reactor is a system that can transport to different places. And the same reactor can use as the power source in multiple systems. The container reactor can transfer between multiple platforms. 

The electric truck or electric jet turbine aircraft can also use the portable nuclear system. The truck can transport the portable nuke to the area where it is needed. Then engineers can connect that nuclear reactor to the electric network. 

The idea of those trains is simple. They are a combination of Australia's famous trains on wheels. And regular passenger trains. That kind of nuclear-powered train can be one of the futuristic transportation systems.

In some versions, those "road trains" are ACVs (air-cushion vehicles) connected to chains. Those chained ACVs are very capable systems that can travel on ice or flat desert areas. So those systems can act as laboratories in remote areas. Or if those trains have a cylinder-shaped body they can travel even at the bottom of the sea. 

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The air cushion train

The air cushion train

The one answer for the levitating trains would be the solution, where both sides of the trains would be magnetic track. This system would hover on the normal air cushion when it can drive over the standard layer. So it would necessarily need special tracks, but the accelerators, which are similar to railgun need energy. Those structures can install on the sides of the track, and they could be installed. But the air cushion train would operate also over pure concrete elements.

The difference for the hyperloop is that this solution would not need a tube around it. And this system would operate above the normal tracks. Wich makes it cheaper than hyperloop because there is needed to put the accelerators to both sides of the track, but the problem is that this kind of system, what hovers above the air cushion would need something, what denies the damages if there are problems with control, and the vehicle would go to out from the track .

But the air cushion would allow this system to operate over the water. And the magnetic accelerators would be pulled over the water if those magnets are connected to buoys, which means that those magnet lines can be laid from the ships. That makes possible to benefit rivers and lakes for this kind of transportation, and this system would have multiple platforms, where it can operate. And that kind of idea could revolutionize logistics and transportation. But those ideas are also very interesting to think about.

An idea of the air cushion is, that it would minimize the friction. But also magnetic levitation can be used for the same purpose. The problem with magnetic levitation is that it needs a brand new infrastructure because pushing magnets must installed in the layer, but magnetic levitation is also a very simple solution, and it bases that magnets push each other away, if they have same mark polarity against together.

So if the form of the train would be aerodynamic, that thing will decrease the need for energy. The idea is that the more conventional system than hyperloop would be the interphrase between hyperloop and conventional trains. The major problem of hyperloop is that it travels in the tubes. The air would be removed from the tube, which would minimize the friction.

Hyperloop can travel forward by using a vacuum pull, where the lower pressure ahead of the vehicle would pull it in the tube, and the second version is the version, which will travel above the layer by using magnetic levitation. The speed of the train will be extremely high, and because there is no air in the tube, that removes the friction. But the system is brand new, and it has not tested yet.