Aerotrain

[cieIMPREVU]

NOUVEAU SPECTACLE : des rails..

Prose du Transsibérien de Blaise Cendrars et l'Aérotrain, rêve en cendres de Patrice Delbourg

Vendredi 02 décembre à 20h30 - Samedi 03 décembre à 20h30

Théâtre de Bligny (91), Centre Médical de Bligny - 91640 BRIIS SOUS FORGES, 01 64 90 73 57

Deux rails de légende : le Transsibérien et l’Aérotrain.

Mais dans la musique de ces deux trains tinte un déraillement : déraillement de l’humain, de l’Histoire et d’une certaine idée du progrès.

[TheRedzGuy]

Oh the way to Rock Island, where Future run Free

[boilerbob7]

The ride quality was superior compared to the normal open window cars used at the time. I never rode it at speed. I got on at Englewood and off at Brainerd. The stations were close together at that time.

[ugslamma]

Saw the real thing on the Rock Island back when I was a kid in Tinley Park illinois

[irish89055]

has to be the ugliest train ever...

[Cockroach2008]

Materials for recycling! Junk them out, cut them apart & melt them down!

[boilerbob7]

I remember riding it as a Rock Island commuter train on the Beverly branch.

[boazrg]

@boilerbob7 What was the ride quality like?

[train2589]

the other one is is the museum of transportaion and has been moved down below to the mini train barn.

[JBofBrisbane]

I wonder, if GM had only bought a licence from the Talgo people in Spain and built the carriages along the Talgo model, would it have worked better? Might we still be using something like it today?

[Flashmikko]

@JBofBrisbane

You know, I was actually wondering the same thing! I would be inclined to think so but then again you must remember that Talgo did not develop their tilting mechanism until 1980. Today however since technology has caught up with the Aerotrain's vision, I would say that GM's general idea to bring people back to the railroad would be quite successful today.

[tmaq97]

I was at the very place in greenbay check my slideshow video of the "Big Boy" and others, this particular train is the last pic of my slideshow!

[kazpmk]

French aerotrain was better but a failure too

[MrTrainman1]

there is no french aerotrain

[kazpmk]

ignorant

[MrTrainman1]

what do u mean there wasn't

[kazpmk]

just look the related videos. It was in the late 60's

[SteffanLlwyd]

Looks so much like 1950s car design. Great to see that a unit was preserved...

[PaulPeirceFan]

well its made from old buses

[revr6598]

This look alot like the Viewliner that was at Disneyland in the early years of its beginning, it was also built by general motors. there is footage of Walt running one of these at the park, sadly they took them out and what was the station for the viewliner is now FInding Nemo submarine.

[trainboy94]

I saw the other one in St. Louis, and also what is the name of this program?????

[bigkatmanning]

it's called "All Aboard!" It was produced locally in Green Bay in 1994, but I'm not sure where or if you could get it (perhaps at the National Railroad Museum gift shop?)

[trainboy94]

can you upload the whole program?????????