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Double Decker Commuter Train

Illustration: Bettmann
Illustration: Bettmann (Getty Images)

This double-decker commuter train of 1975, imagined in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce slide presentation from 1955, included the streamlined look that was first popularized in the 1930s. Even the humans of the 1930s were going to be streamlined, sleeker and chicer.

We like to think of retro ideas like this streamlined train as being completely new to the time. But every generation pulls something from the generations of designers that came before it.

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