The train concepts shown above illustrate clearly that regardless of its popular image, the Soviet Union was far from bland & stodgy. Even so, a startling number of futuristic concepts were being circulated among the Russian populace by magazines like TM. Trans-Siberian FantasiesĪcross the globe, the USSR was firmly in the grip of Stalinism and idle day-dreaming was a luxury few could afford – or risk. The Radio Tube Train shown in all its fire engine red glory dates from a time when anything seemed possible and hope was a very precious commodity. Modern Mechanix was another pseudo-scientific magazine of the Depression era that offered both the economically challenged and the nation’s idealistic youth a vision of better days to come. Popular Science was one of the leaders in this genre and their brightly colored covers were a window into an exciting future that just might be. One can always rely on mid-20th-century pulp magazines to provide a glimpse of a utopian future. Of particular note are some trains that were expected to move entire city blocks and others which rode undersea rails to thus combine the advantages of train and ship travel.
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Hildebrands, a turn-of-the-20th-century German chocolate company, put out a series of amazing and amusing cards which attempted to predict the wonders of the world one hundred years in the future – but which actually seem to be a mere 10 years ahead, if that. Any future imaginings included bigger & better trains, such as the brassy selection above. Back when Britannia ruled the waves and cars had yet to hit the streets, the steel sinews of railroad tracks bound land and empire into the world’s penultimate power.
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