Remember The Jetsons? How they all travelled by pneumatic tube, sucked from one place to another? These plans, concepts and photographs show we've been dreaming about that idea for a long time.
Remains of the Beach Pneumatic Tunnel in 1899. [Oobject]
The Battersea Pneumatic Dispatch, which, in this image, was used to deliver mail. Later, a passenger carrying version of this system was developed elsewhere in London, at Holborn.
A BART alternative, Bay Area Gravity-Vacuum Transit, 1967. BAGVT just doesn't have the same ring as BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit).
ET3 - space travel on Earth, New York to Beijing in two hours. The ET3 system would be networked like a freeway, with interstate travel at speeds of 595km/h and international travel at 6437km/h.
The Dalkey Atmospheric Railway in Ireland.
Goddard's NY to San Francisco vacuum train proposal.
Trans-Atlantic Vacuum Tube plus MagLev.
The Crystal Palace Pneumatic Railway.
A diagram of a giant blower for pneumatic rail.
A plan for a Manhattan Pneumatic Railway.
The Beach Pneumatic Transit System demo.
What remains of Brunel's Pneumatic Railway.
For more things under the ground, on rails, or sucked through a tube, take a look at 10 creepy abaondoned subway stations, impressive luxury trains, crazy and spectacular sewers, 15 pneumatic message networks, or 20 railroad snowplows. [Oobject]