[SlowBoat407]

I mean, a "future" world where the hero has to stop at a pay phone and ask for a long distance operator, and where a railroad company is at the forefront of technology? How will the screenwriters handle that?

Easy, wherever the technology is behind the times, make it state-run. Wherever it's at the cutting edge, make it privately owned.

[Larry Lucido]

Not bad. :-)

Still, there would be a lot of anachronisms if the setting was as written. It's doable (a "future" USA of 40 or 50 years ago), but I don't know how well it would actually work.

Maybe it could be Taggart Hover Craft, and Rearden Polymers could create the lighter than air fusilage.