Cars Will Travel in Tubes by Year 2000
The Year 2000–as it was called before 2000–is looking awfully distant with each passing year. Will it ever happen? And what I […]
Category: Bizarre Transport
The Grandeur and Faded Glory of Elvis’ Private Jet Rotting in the Desert
It’s not the Lisa Marie and it’s not the Hound Dog II, both of which were in top condition and on auction […]
The William Boyes Wooden Monorail
I saw this picture yesterday at Seattle’s MOHAI (Museum of History and Industry). The caption said that the monorail was constructed in […]
Cutaway of Admiral Byrd’s Antarctic Snow Cruiser, 1939
Click Here For Large (1353 x 1200 Pixels) In an issue of LIFE magazine from October 30, 1939 that I have […]
Aerial Trolley: Burbank’s Monorail From 1910 is 100% Real
In 1906, a farmers J.W. and E.C. Fawkes formed the Aerial Trolley Company Co., Inc. and put a monorail-like trolley in their […]
Top 3 Cars of Supercilious Grouchy Old Bastards
Being somewhat in the market for a new car and being somewhat of a guy who is getting (snort!) older, I figured […]
Where Is the Missing $3 Million From the Lost Hawaii Clipper?
It’s strange enough that a boat-plane with $3,000,000 in cash would go missing. It’s also strange that it would be so underreported. […]
PanAm Yankee Clipper Cutaway Drawing, ca 1930s
This cutaway drawing shows the PanAm Yankee Clipper (B-314), which was built by Boeing on the base of an XB-15 bomber […]
Hindenburg “A” Deck Cutaway
One of the best, and cheapest, books that I have ever had about the Hindenburg is called Hindenburg: an Illustrated History, by […]
Zeppelin Sub-Cloud or Spy Basket: The Ultimate Secret
Zeppelins, despite their mammoth size, are by nature secretive modes of transport. Even when they plied the skies on a regular basis, […]