Transport (Twilight of a New Era)

The World between 1914 and 1964 was brought closer by new means of transport.

Railways
It this period great railroads where planned and finished. The Trans-Siberian Railroad, the railway network of India, Transandine Railway, Trans-Central Asian Railway, Baghdad Railway, Chinese Eastern Railway, Trans-Australian Railway, Cape to Cairo Railway, Trans-Sahara Railway and Pan-American Railroad.

Air transport
The chief innovations occurred in air transport, from the fable attempts of the first pioneers to transnational airline companies. By the end of 1950s air transport ceased to be a luxury of the rich and became common form to shuttle the common man between continents.

The aviation progressed from the piston-engine propeller to radial and jet engines. The simple propeller driven aircraft shared the skies with lighter the air airships, versatile autogyros and helicopters, common propeller and jet driven airplanes, and exotic ekranoplanes.