The Home Machinist!

Back to the idea of a pneumatic railway:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_P ... ic_railway

It sure seamed in the UK, one inventor had a system where the 'carriage' was not in a pneumatic tube...and ran along the track. I was not able to find a link on that one.

This type of thing would possible be 'easy' to model...on a real small scale...but we certainly would not be riding it...and perhaps could not even see it!

-Mike

Interesting concept! With a long enough tunnel, I expect that some impressive speed could be achieved.

Harold

Here is what I had been thinking of:

http://www.ikbrunel.org.uk/atmospheric-railway

Brunel's atmospheric railway.

Sounds like he was ahead of his technological time!

dorin wrote:Sounds like he was ahead of his technological time!

Chuckle! That, or very fond of feeding rats!

Harold

Very interesting about the Brunel idea. Looks similar to the steam catapults used on aircraft carriers. They use a tube with a rubber sealing strip.