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Schienenzeppelin

Okay, so imagine you have a really long, thin toy train that can go really fast. That's kind of like what the Schienenzeppelin was - a train that could go faster than almost any other train at the time.

But the Schienenzeppelin was extra special because it was designed to look like an airplane. It had a long, pointy nose and big, curved wings on the sides.

The train flew down a special track called a railway line, which was like a long, flat road made just for trains. But even though it looked like an airplane, it didn't actually fly in the air - it just went really, really fast on the ground.

The Schienenzeppelin was invented a long time ago, back in the 1930s, when people were still trying to figure out how to make things go really fast. It was like a big experiment, to see what kind of awesome things people could create.

Today, people still love the Schienenzeppelin because it was such a cool invention, and it helps us understand how far we've come in developing fast, efficient transportation.
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