Bullet train which permits passenger loading and unloading without stopping

Abstract

A passenger carrying monorail bullet train which travels in a loop at between about one hundred and one hundred fifty miles per hour across country between major metropolitan cities, and which does not stop to board and egress passengers. The bullet train is suspended above ground by a monorail supported by towers therealong. Passengers are shuttled from a station in a passenger shuttle module carried by an engine powered passenger shuttle vehicle along standard railroad tracks which merge with the monorail at a passenger transfer zone. The railroad tracks are elevated in the transfer zone to raise the passenger shuttle vehicle and passenger transport module towards a special passenger transfer module into which the passenger transport module is secured, while passengers leaving the bullet train are housed in a separate passenger transport module in the passenger transfer module which lowers with the passenger transport vehicle on the back side of the ramp for transport back to the station.

I claim:  
     
         1 . A high speed monorail train which rides on a monorail supported above the ground by means of a plurality of support columns, and passenger transfer by conventional parallel ground-mounted rails, the monorail train which permits passenger loading and unloading without stopping, comprising: 
 a powered engine module rollably mounted to the monorail;    a passenger module rollably mounted to the monorail and operatively connected to be pulled by said engine module;    a passenger transfer module rollably mounted to the monorail and operatively connected to be pulled by said engine module, said passenger transfer module which includes a transfer module support device having a receiving position and a holding position;    a powered passenger shuttle vehicle which rollably moves on the ground-mounted rails;    a passenger transport module for carrying passengers which is carried by said passenger shuttle; and    wherein said passenger module can be driven into a position below said passenger transfer module while moving at speed and lifted by a ramp supporting ground-mounted rails such that said transfer module support device receives the passenger transport module and switches to the holding position to support said passenger transport module as said powered passenger shuttle vehicle lowers by rolling from the ramp.