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New York Central’s Commodore Vanderbilt Locomotive (1936).

On December 27, 1934, the Commodore Vanderbilt Locomotive, the “World’s First-Powered Streamlined Steam Locomotive” was exhibited at the Grand Central Terminal. The New York Times and other newspapers gave it a headline with photographs and proclaimed it to be a great day for the railroads and the beginning of a new era in locomotive design.

 

[Full story at nycshs.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/pages-from-1981q3.pdf

 

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