AeroTrain

These pictures are of my wife (she's leaning against the train in one picture) with the AeroTrain but the dates don't seem right. The slides these are from came from a reel shot in 1958-9 (there's person pictures in the batch that identify the period).

I looked this up and it seems this train didn't exist back then.

?????

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Thanks for posting! Odd thing in the pic seems to be that the hearse-like rear end doesn't carry the Chevy logo as in this one:

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Some time in 1956 #1001 seems to have been put in between Cleveland & Chicago in the NYC livery:
http://www.trainweb.org/willstrainar...ne/1001nyc.gif

Quote: "The cars each rode on two axles with an air suspension system, which was intended to give a smooth ride, but had the opposite effect."
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerotrain_(GM)
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/...erican-public/

"The mystery deepens as the plot thickens..."

Cheers
Johan

The rear end is quite a bit different between the two. Also, my wife thinks this would have been in San Jose, California. They didn't have much money so travel was very limited. But a trip to the local train station to see this would have been something they would have done.