For this and other reasons, the atmospheric railway didn't work all that well, and never caught on. The problem is, the tallow attracted rats. This carriage is about the size and shape of a large watermelon and moves back and forth through the pipe under vacuum power, bringing the train with it. Within the pipe you'll find something Schlienger calls a thrust carriage, which is connected to the train with powerful magnets. Its sole product, the Vectorr system, uses a propulsion method like no other: Between the rails lies a PVC pipe, 12 inches in diameter, connected to a pump that can draw all of the air out of the pipe or fill it. That man is Max Schlienger, an accomplished engineer who owns the vineyard and leads his family-run company, Flight Rail Corp.
The 89-year-old man who built it believes it could change how the world moves. It uses vacuum power and heavy duty magnets.
Well, it doesn't chug so much as whoosh, because this train-actually, a one-sixth scale train-doesn't rely upon a diesel engine or electricity to get around.
On a clear, sunny day at a vineyard in the Northern California town of Ukiah, a most unusual train chugs through a field of barely budding syrah grapes.
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