Although I don't have a model of it, I've always had a special spot in my memory for the Aerotrain, having seen it in person. I lived along the PRR main line in the Fifties, and I watched it stop at our station to pick up passengers. I can still see the alternate-flashing taillights as it pulled smoothly away, westbound into history.
Pity the experiment didn't work out.
That's why I picked up a set. I can remember my Dad taking my brother and me over to Harrisburg station to see this 'new modern marvel'. We got to take a tour. 1956. We lived in Lemoyne at the time.
You got a tour? Lucky! Our local paper published the time when the Aerotrain would be passing through town, and my Dad took me down to the station to see it.
Does anyone remember the segment of the "Today" show, in which Dave Garroway introduced the Aerotrain to the TV audience?
