Engineer Baruch Katinka built this unique railcar that was propelled by an airplane engine and propellor, and travelled on a narrow track. The air-propelled railcar was built for the Bavarian Air Squadron stationed in the Jezreel Valley, and operated between March and September 1918 on the Valley Railway, an offshoot of the Hijaz Railway line between Haifa and Semakh. The first air-propelled railcar (M8) had a 160-horsepower engine, and could travel at 100 km/h, a world record for trains at the time. The model at the station (and the only one in Israel) was built to match Katinka’s first M8 model, as reconstructed from original photographs.
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