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Logan Stahl and Sam Fontaine
Logan Stahl
A black-and white ink sketch of two blimps on a cloudy background.
Logan Stahl
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Airships saw a revival in usage in in the second half of the 21st century as the cost of fueling heavier-than-air travel grew. Solar-heated thermal blimps dominated shortrange in commuter air travel, especially in places such as northern Canada and Siberia that with the thawing of permafrost saw increased settlement but poor infrastructure development. Large, long-haul cargo blimps were typically of hybrid design with a skin of solar panels coating the top half.
A black-and white ink sketch of a trucklike bus. It is connected to rails above it, and the letters RAL can be read on the side. Rail cars stretch into the distance.
Logan Stahl
The Americans negligence of their own rail lines and public transit systems throughout the 1900s and early 2000s created a serious problem when they could no longer ignore increasingly severe oil crises from the 2070s onward. Their solution was to electrify the sprawling American highway system. Power lines arced over freeway lanes where trolleybuses and mile-long cargo trams replaced the once-ubiquitous automobile.
A black-and-white ink sketch of a plane. Its wings go outside the edge of the square it is drawn in. The body of the plane is small and futuristic, and the wings are small. Behind the plane is the silhouette of a forest. Behind the forest, are two windmills.
Logan Stahl
The mills at Pineborough are famed for miles around for the quality of wood they produce. Timber felled there finds its way into new mills, boats, carriages, and even Pineborough’s own laminated veneer lumber aircraft, affectionately nicknamed “Woodwinds” ‘
Solar Tokyo / Sam Fontaine
A black-and-white ink drawing of a city. Highways rise up off the ground and criss-cross one another. One of them leads to a circular wheel with spokes in the back of the image. There are slanted buildings and windows. On the right, a person on a bike, in a bike helmet, moves towards the bottom o the photo.
