5 Ambitious Attempts to Reinvent the Train (That Failed) ???? History in the Dark ????

Sometimes in development, people try to push the envelope. New ideas always take time and effort and blood, sweat, and tears. But more often than not, new ideas no matter how amazing they may seem simply do not turn out the way that people want them to. Here's five times in history where that exact thing happened.

"A sail bogey or sail trolley is a wind-driven vehicle that runs along railway tracks."

"The Aérotrain was an experimental Tracked Air Cushion Vehicle (TACV), or hovertrain, developed in France from 1965 to 1977 under the engineering leadership of Jean Bertin (1917–1975) – and intended to bring the French rail network to the cutting edge of land-based public transportation."

"The gyro monorail, gyroscopic monorail, gyro-stabilized monorail, or gyrocar are terms for a single rail land vehicle that uses the gyroscopic action of a spinning wheel to overcome the inherent instability of balancing on top of a single rail."

"The Bennie Railplane was a form of rail transport invented by George Bennie (1891–1957), which moved along an overhead rail by way of propellers."

"The Beach Pneumatic Transit was the first attempt to build an underground public transit system in New York City. It was developed by Alfred Ely Beach in 1869 as a demonstration subway line running on pneumatic power. The subway line had one stop in the basement of the Rogers Peet Building and a one-car shuttle going back and forth. It was not a regular mode of transportation, and lasted from 1870 until 1873."

???? Further reading ????
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sail_bogey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A9rotrain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_monorail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennie_Railplane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit

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