Meet the 89-Year-Old Reinventing the Train in His Backyard

TinCan782 · Jun 14, 2017

Well, it doesn't chug so much as whoosh because this train—actually, a one-sixth scale train—doesn't rely upon a diesel engine or electricity to get around. It uses vacuum power and heavy duty magnets.

https://www.wired.com/story/flight-rail-vectorr-atmospheric-railway-train

KmH · Jun 14, 2017

Cool stuff.

It would take a bit to install such a system on the rail system we have now though.

railiner · Jun 15, 2017

It would seem to me that a simple mag-lev system would be more efficient than the added step of the vacuum thrust tubel.....

MARC Rider · Jun 16, 2017

How does the system work for switching tracks, junctions, crossovers, etc?

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