December 7, 2015 - KPRC Houston

HOUSTON - Its official name is the ‘Tokaido Shinkansen,’ but Texans may know it as the famous Japanese bullet train.

Texas Central Partners is a private group that wants to bring the high-speed rail to Texas.

The company gave KPRC 2 News' partners at NBC in Dallas an exclusive tour of the bullet train operations in Japan.

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The train Texas would get is called the N700-A. It's been in service for two years. The Texas train would be half as long as those in Japan and would carry 400 people.

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