Although looking at the images might suggest a Japanese bullet train, this was actually an experimental German railcar named the Schienenzeppelin—“Zeppelin on Rails”—due to its resemblance to airships ...

Heralded as the 'Zeppelin on Rails', it was the propeller-powered train that promised to beckon a new era in travel. On June 21, 1931, the Schienenzeppelin set a new speed record for the railway ...

The propeller-driven aluminum train Schienenzeppelin is miles tamer but every bit as magnificent. And unlike the Amerika Bomber, it really ran — at 140 mph in 1931! The concept and execution of ...

Scottish inventor George Bennie had a dream. Where trains couldn’t link destinations separated by water, grand railways would stretch through the skies, guiding propeller-powered planes from ...