Awesome Supertrain

�In the TV show, Supertrain was so wide that it needed its own special set of rails. It could travel from New York to Los Angeles in 36 hours using its �atomic engine,� and housed a hospital, a swimming pool, a piano bar, a movie theater, a disco, and a gift shop. In reality, NBC spent $5 million on a full-scale Supertrain set, as well as building several different fully functional scale models of Supertrain. Say what you will about the show, but the models were sweet� As for the rest of the show, well� At the time, it was the most expensive TV show ever produced, but it only ran for 9 episodes during the 1978-1979 TV season. Critics said that the show depended mostly on the gimmick of a giant atomic train, which would have sold me on the show personally, but it didn�t work out for the public at large. Despite a brief attempt at a revamp, NBC wasted no time in cancelling Supertrain, but not before it became arguably one of the most expensive TV flops of all time.