A closer look
Australia is unfathomably huge, and driving across it is a surefire way to lose your mind. Enter the New South Wales 'Land Ferry' concept. Instead of driving for fourteen hours through featureless desert, you just drove your station wagon onto a flatbed railcar, retreated to a sleeper cabin, and let the train do all the work. It was essentially a cruise ship for your commute, peaking in the 1980s before cheap airfares ruined everything, forcing people back into the sky or behind the wheel of their miserable sedans.
