I'm only just learning about NBC's 1979 Supertrain series for the first time.
I thought it was a model kit but it was an American TV show.
Supertrain was like Love Boat but on tracks.
The late Seventies show's set reminds me of Derek Meddings and his team years earlier.
If its a model for TV it looks darn real to me. The team made two models for outside filming and a huge indoor one. They cost NBC $10 Million!
Sleek, sharp and low. It recalls Hot Wheels' Hot Tracks trains! Despite its fabulous looks, the show was panned.
But what a fantastic model those model makers made! It was the costliest TV show in America at the time.
Yep, that really looks like a Thunderbirds set now!
Unlike Thunderbirds, Supertrain is ranked as one of the worst TV shows of all time and has been consigned to that big folder marked Flop.
Wiki say more about it. I imagine there's a book out there too. I wonder where the models ended up?
Have you seen Supertrain?
