Transpo '72
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U.S. International Transportation Exposition, better known as Transpo '72, was a trade show held on 300 acres of land at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., for nine days from May 2
Amtrak UAC TurboTrain at Transpo '72
Dashaveyor
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The Dashaveyor was an automated guideway transit system developed during the 1960s and 1970s.
Transpo '72
…Villarreal, administrator of UMTA, stated that Transpo "marks UMTA's entry into the space age of mass transportation." The four chosen systems were the Bendix Dashaveyor, the Ford ACT, TTI Hovair (a spin-off of General Motors) and the Rohr ROMAG, represented by its former rubber-wheeled prototype, the Monocab. Boeing…
Dashaveyors arranged into a four-car train at the Toronto Zoo. Note the low height of the guideway sidewalls.
Details of the Dashaveyor's running gear are visible in this photo. The small horizontal wheels at the front steer the larger running wheels just visible behind them. The electrical supply uses a small 3rd rail shaped like a V with a pickup that pushes up on the bottom of it. The operator can also be seen in the front left of the cabin.