The Russian merchants were the first to create ships that could stab the ice. They felt offended to lose six months each, waiting for the ice to melt in the seas adjacent to our country, as well as in the rivers and lakes and it will be possible to open navigation. They tried several times to adapt ordinary steamships for ice piercing in the Gulf of Finland, Lake Onega, near the Lena River, etc. However, things got better and better when shipbuilders started to build specialized icebreaker ships...

A train hovered four feet above the railway. The entire railway system was a magnetic field composed of ebon shiny rectangles. They also had a function of one big audiovisual screen. Warnings, advice, advertisements and more were projected on these little black bricks...