A-POWERED TRAINS IN GLASS TUBES (Dec, 1956)
A-POWERED TRAINS IN GLASS TUBES
They’ll give airliner speeds plus weather-free reliability.
By Frank Tinsley
THE train of the future, whipping passengers vast distances through continent-girdling tubes at speeds and in comfort far surpassing that of modern air travel, is no longer merely a dream in the minds of our more imaginative designers and engineers. This old idea (New York’s first working subway train was sucked through a tube) has been brought well within the realm of probability—and the hero of this advance is, as has so often been the case in the history of technology, a new material.
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