Forgotten Machines
By Forgotten Machines
Categories: History
Forgotten Machines tells the stories of machines that were built, tested and then forgotten: jet-powered railcars, nuclear merchant ships, Antarctic snow cruisers. Every episode is researched from primary sources, fact-checked twice, and lists its sources in the show notes. Narration uses a synthetic voice. New episodes every two weeks. Also on YouTube: youtube.com/@forgottenmachineschannel
8 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- What Happened To GM's Futurliners?
In January 2006, a General Motors Futurliner sold at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale, Arizona, for $4 million.Narrated with an AI voice. Written with AI help, fact-checked by the channel's editor.Dale Hollis in this story is invented. The machine, the dates, the events and every real…
- What Happened To America's Supersonic Airliner?
On March 24, 1971, before a roll call on money for America's supersonic transport, the Senate's presiding officer warned the galleries against any demonstrations.Narrated with an AI voice. Written with AI help, fact-checked by the channel's editor.Lyle and Ruth Marsden in this story are invented…
- What Happened To The Army's Overland Train?
LeTourneau's Overland Train Mark II was a 572-foot land train built for the United States Army in Longview, Texas, and accepted in February 1962: a control car, two power cars and ten trailers on 54 driven wheels, with four gas turbines making the current.Narrated with an AI voice. Written with AI…
- What Happened To The Chrysler Turbine Car?
From 1963 to 1966 Chrysler lent its gas turbine car to 203 households, three months at a time, and then destroyed most of the cars.Narrated with an AI voice. Written with AI help, fact-checked by the channel's editor.The Halvorsen family and the people they meet in this story are invented. The…
- What Happened To The SS United States?
Okaloosa County, Florida, plans to sink the SS United States on November 12, 2026, the day it set on October 26, and make her the world's largest artificial reef.Narrated with an AI voice. Written with AI help, fact-checked by the channel's editor.Russ Pryce in this story is invented. The ship…
- What Happened To The Antarctic Snow Cruiser?
The Antarctic Snow Cruiser was a diesel-electric machine built in Chicago in 1939 to carry a crew across Antarctica. It bogged down on the snow at the Bay of Whales in January 1940 and was left under the snow at Little America III. The last dated sighting this episode found is a glaciologist's…
- What Happened To America's Nuclear Ship Savannah?
The NS Savannah was the first nuclear-powered merchant ship, and in June 1955 President Eisenhower told reporters to think of the crowds that would come to see an atomic ship. They did. She drew about 1.4 million visitors from 1962 to 1965 by the Maritime Administration's count. She last sailed in…
- What Happened To America's 183 MPH Jet Train?
The M-497 jet train still holds the American speed mark for a train on an existing main line. On Saturday, July 23, 1966, the New York Central ran a thirteen-year-old Budd commuter car, with two surplus bomber jet engines on its roof, east from Butler, Indiana. Near Bryan, Ohio, the railroad's…
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