East Japan Railway Co. on Wednesday unveiled to the media ALFA-X, the testbed of the next-generation bullet train, which is expected to run at a speed of 360 kilometers per hour.The 10-car silver train with green lines being manufactured at Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd.'s plant in Kobe in Hyogo Prefecture will be completed in May. It will go through a high-speed trial run on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line to gather data for sound reduction.The test train's No. 1 car featuring a 16-meter nose-shaped head was shown to the media Wednesday. The nose of the No. 10 car on the tail end is expected be…READ FULL ARTICLE
