Amphibian Monorail (Popular Science, 1934)

The July , 1934 issue of Popular Science features the sleek , advanced look we often see in this era of the paleo - future ; beautiful images filled with Bob Hope that the future could somehow hold promise .

amphibious trains that can whiz above desert sands on an overhead rail , or plunge into the water to ford a river , are speculate by the Soviet Government in an amazing programme to knock mineral wealth in Turkestan . They are to journey three project monorail pipeline of unprecedented design , totaling 332 miles in length and crossing desert and river .

A unmarried overhead rail on concrete measure could be erected at humbled cost along these routes , technologist estimate . atmosphere - porpelled car with matching , cigar - shaped hull could range the track and slide along it , at swiftness reaching 180 knot an 60 minutes , accord to computation found on test of model at Moscow . The cars would be equipeed with Diesel - electric drive , and each would carry forty passengers or an equivalent freight load . Where the longest of the image road crosses the river Amu - Daria , a mile and a quarter astray , it is purport that amphibian cars be used . On arriving at the shoring the cars would leave the overhead rail and cross the river as a sauceboat . Soviet locomotive engineer are reported already surveying the route .

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