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</head>
<body>
<h1 id="title-index">Politics-Conspiracies-Project</h1>
<h1 id="title-index">air-rail</h1>
<nav id="menu">
<a href="../index.html">
<div class="button">Home</div>
</a>
<a href="../fulltext2.html">
<a href="../fulltext.html">
<div class="button">Fulltext</div>
</a>
<a href="../analysis.html">
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</div>
</a>
</nav>
<h2>air-rail</h2>
<p> Info pulled from the Usenet. Air (atmosphere) Railway Systems.</p>
<p>Today and Yesterday
-------------------------</p>
@ -193,25 +192,26 @@ lower the pressure you need. The vehicle was a full-size broad
gauge railway car ringed with bristles; it carried 35 passengers.
The trip took 50 seconds, thus averaging about 25 mph. Another,
smaller demonstration line was built at a fair in the US in 1867
by Alfred Ely <span class="PERSON">Beach</span>.</p>
by Alfred Ely <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Beach</span>.</p>
<p>
<span class="PERSON">Beach</span> then formed the <span class="PERSON">Beach</span> Pneumatic Transit Company, which
<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Beach</span> then formed the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Beach</span> Pneumatic Transit Company, which
obtained permission to build a freight-carrying pneumatic line
under <span class="LOC">Broadway</span> in New York. But what he actually opened in 1870
under <span class="LOC" title="LOC">Broadway</span> in <span class="GPE" title="GPE">New York</span>. But what he actually opened in 1870
was a passenger-carrying pneumatic subway, the only one to
actually operate under a city street. It was only 312 feet long,
from Warren Street to Murray Street. The tunnel was 9 feet in
diameter, and was worked by a single car with a capacity of
18 passengers.</p>
<p>
<span class="PERSON">Beach</span> tried but failed to get permission to extend the line.
It closed after a few months, and New York did not get a subway
<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Beach</span> tried but failed to get permission to extend the line.
It closed after a few months, and <span class="GPE" title="GPE">New York</span> did not get a subway
again until 1904, when the first Interborough Rapid Transit route
was opened (from City Hall station along the present Lexington
Avenue, 42nd Street shuttle, and 7th Avenue lines to, um, initially
somewhere around 120th Street). This route was electric and so
have been all its successors.</p>
<p>Beach's tunnel had been almost forgotten when the crews
<p>
<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Beach</span>'s tunnel had been almost forgotten when the crews
constructing the new subway broke into it in 1912.</p>
<p>In London, a pneumatic underground line was started *with* permission,
but construction was never completed. This was the Waterloo and
@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ conversely, had been used first as a footway, then converted to
railway use.)</p>
<p>After this time, electric railways began to become practical.
The next underground line to open was the City &amp; South London,
now part of the Underground's <span class="PERSON">Northern</span> Line. Its first section
now part of the Underground's <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Northern</span> Line. Its first section
(from Stockwell to a now disused terminus at King William Street,
replaced by the present Bank station) opened in 1890. It used
the new deep-level tube tunnels, with more limited ventilation
@ -260,11 +260,11 @@ shape of the tube trains.</p>
<p>With the success of the electric lines, the Metropolitan and
District faced the loss of traffic, and they too were converted
to elecricity -- at least for the underground sections in central
London in 1905. The first line of the present New York subway
London in 1905. The first line of the present <span class="GPE" title="GPE">New York</span> subway
system opened in 1904 and this, too, has always used electricity.
(This was the original Interborough Rapid Transit route, from City
Hall station along the present Lexington Avenue, 42nd Street shuttle,
and 7th Avenue lines to, um, somewhere around 120th Street). Beach's
and 7th Avenue lines to, um, somewhere around 120th Street). <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Beach</span>'s
tunnel had been almost forgotten when the crews constructing the
new subway broke into it in 1912.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the humble original concept of the pneumatic dispatch tube
@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ possible, as had been done on the pneumatic railways, to use both
positive pressure (on the order of 1 atmosphere) and vacuum, to
drive the capsules both ways from a single pumping station. The
tubes became quite common; many miles were built in various European
and <span class="PERSON">North</span> American cities. By 1886 London had over 34 miles of them
and <span class="LOC" title="LOC">North American</span> cities. By 1886 London had over 34 miles of them
for the Post Office's telegraph service alone. In the Paris system
a person could pay a fee for a message to be sent specifically by
the tube.</p>
@ -295,8 +295,8 @@ of heavy cloth-reinforced rubber. Computerized remote control
is used.</p>
<p>Oh yes.</p>
<p>Pneumatic dispatch tubes were depicted in the 1985 movie "Brazil";
Beach's tunnel was depicted, in rather distorted form, in the 1989
movie "Ghostbusters II"; the modern form of the New York subway
<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Beach</span>'s tunnel was depicted, in rather distorted form, in the 1989
movie "Ghostbusters II"; the modern form of the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">New York</span> subway
has been depicted in many movies, notably the 1974 one "The Taking
of Pelham One Two Three"; but I don't believe the atmospheric or
pneumatic systems have ever been depicted at work in any movie.