AeroTrain

[jdurand]

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.

?????

[DIYSwede]

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:



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

[jdurand]

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.