The Tokaido Shinkansen continues operating in conditions that would shut down most rail systems.

**Engineering behind it:**
🔹 Advanced snow detection sensors
🔹 Heated track switching systems
🔹 Aerodynamic design prevents snow buildup
🔹 Real-time monitoring & predictive maintenance
🔹 Automated de-icing systems

Since 1964, the Shinkansen has maintained a perfect safety record while running at 320 km/h.

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@xavierdatatech This brings to mind a notorious episode with British Rail in 1991, with disruption caused by the unusual (for Britain) ‘type of snow’, which the media turned into British Rail blaming ‘the wrong type of snow’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_wrong_type_of_snow
The wrong type of snow - Wikipedia