Aerotrains – The Forgotten Train Experiments

Get your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid. It's an exclusive offer for our viewers! Start your free trial today. MagellanTV is a new kind of streaming service run by filmmakers with 3,000+ documentaries! Check out our personal recommendation and MagellanTV’s exclusive playlists: https://www.magellantv.com/genres/science-tech. In the time between steam and Deisel / Electric power, a couple of train locomotives tried propulsion sources from aircraft, be that propellers or jets in an attempt to make faster more powerful trains with varying degrees of success but ultimately they were shunted into the sidings of the history books. This is a look at Aerotrains and why they didn't take off. This video is sponsored by MagellanTV https://try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid Written, Researched and Presented by Paul Shillito Images and Footage : ReverseThrustAviation, Colin Prosser, Bitgood, The Hellenic Trainspotters A big thank you also goes to all our Patreons :-) Eριχθόνιος JL Abrakodabra Kobra / 25% Alistair Brown Andrew Gaess Andrew SMITH Brian Kelly Cameron Elliot Carl Soderstrom ChasingSol Collin Copfer Daniele Noacco Etienne Dechamps Florian Müller George Bishop II Henning Bitsch Henri Saussure inunotaisho james t early Janne Kurikka Jim Early Johan Rombaut john edwards Jonathan Merage Jonathan Travers Kedar Deshpande Ken Schwarz László Antal Lawrence Brennan Lorne Diebel MajorFluffy Pyloric SHAMIR stefan hufenbach Steve J - LakeCountySpacePort Vincent Music from the Youtube library Traversing by Godmode Heaven and Hell by Jeremy Blake