October 9, 2019October 9, 20191950s, ApexUSA, Bizarre Transport, Vehicles 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 […]
May 29, 2017May 29, 2017Bizarre 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 […]
February 11, 2013July 14, 2017Bizarre Transport 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 […]
January 17, 2013July 14, 20171930s, Bizarre Transport, Vehicles 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 […]
May 18, 2011July 14, 2017Bizarre Transport 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 […]
July 20, 2010July 14, 2017Bizarre Transport 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 […]
August 20, 2009January 30, 20191930s, Bizarre Transport, Things You've Never Heard Of 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. […]
August 15, 2009July 14, 20171930s, Aircraft, Bizarre Transport, Cutaway Drawings and Cross-Sections 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 […]
July 12, 2009July 14, 20171930s, Airships, Bizarre Transport 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 […]
July 9, 2009July 14, 20171930s, Airships, Bizarre Transport 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, […]