White River Junction, VT: Monorail & Airship Future Vision Postcard c.1905
Startlingly prescient for a small Vermont town, this Edwardian novelty postcard reimagines White River Junction with an elevated monorail ferrying passengers to Lebanon via Butmanville, a streetcar running at grade level, and — most audaciously — a dirigible airship labeled 'To New York' cruising the upper right sky. The existing Junction House hotel and real street geography ground the fantasy, making the futuristic overlays feel like genuine civic optimism rather than pure fantasy.
A sleepy Vermont junction town has boldly annexed the future, complete with a blimp commute to New York. The Junction House hotel appears entirely unbothered by all of this.
“Lebanon via Butmanville | Lebanon via Butmanville | To New York | Junction House | Station | Entrance To Everts | White River Junction, Vt. in the future.”
