Streamline Moderne Design
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The hood ornament of a 1941 Chevrolet Special Deluxe in the collection of Addison, Texas’ Cavanaugh Flight Museum.
Union Pacific E9s No. 954 and 960 pull eight passenger cars on the Provo Sub between Mona and Santaquin, Utah on March 18, 1979. The streamliner spent the day traveling between Las Vegas and Salt Lake City.
After making its regular station stop in Provo, Utah, the Rio Grande Zephyr is back up to speed west of town the evening of July 13, 1978.
MÁV Class 242 was a 4-4-4T steam locomotive of Hungarian State Railways. A small class of only four examples, they were built between 1936 and 1939 and only this one is left. They were highly unusual in that they were both streamlined, as was the fashion of that period for fast express service, but they were also tank locomotives. - Hungarian speed record in 1961 with 161 km/h. Seen in the steam workshop Budapest.
S306 trails R707 "City of Melbourne" with train 8095 the Walkerlander/Winelander tour to Castlemaine at Diggers Rest. 2/4/22
As the night rolls on, so does Southern Shorthaul Railroad’s Westons tip duties. Usually done with SSR101 & SSR102, CLF1 (Formerly CL2) replaced SSR102 while it was at Cardiff for some TLC. Here we see CLF1 & SSR101 nearing the completion of the tip. (2 hours left of the 2 day tip cycle). Thursday, 28th October 2021.
Union Pacific's trio of stylish E9 locomotives pull a 12-car Los Angeles to Council Bluffs office car special along the New Extension track in Salt Lake City, Utah the morning of Aug. 23, 1993.
The NS OCS dips out of Jacksonville after a short visit as train 952, here seen crossing the Crawford, Fl diamond.
Union Pacific E9 No. 951 leads an Operation Lifesaver train departing Provo for Salt Lake City on May 4, 1995. The 10-car train spent the day with law enforcement and local officials on board, promoting safety along UP tracks and grade crossings between Springville and Mona, Utah.
This was taken at the Klairmont Kollections Museum in Chicago. I changed the background to a solid color, as the original was distracting.
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Streamlined: having a form that presents very little resistance to a flow of air
Result: Speed
Measured at: 389 km/h (242 mph) - In a dive
Meaning: Your looking at the fastest animal on the planet
Impressed? If you're not... check for a pulse!
In 2014 the North Carolina Transportation Museum held their biggest party ever and in my humble opinion the single greatest railfan event I've ever attended before or since. Following up on their wildly successful heritage unit family portrait event for Norfolk Southern's 30th anniversary they planned something even bigger.
Gathering 26 surviving freight and passenger diesels from the classic first generation era, they all came together for three days of festivities centered around the old Southern Railway turntable such as this shot I already shared: flic.kr/p/2nD4WQL
In addition there were rides and locomotive parades and a seemingly infinite number of photo set ups both day and night. Here's one of the latter with a trio of visitors staged next to the former Southern Railway Barbers Junction Depot. Built in 1898 it sat at the diamond crossing of the SOU's east-west Asheville District S-Line with the north-south Danville District L-Line down from Winston-Salem. Located in the small town about a dozen miles east of Salisbury it was picked up and moved in one piece to the museum in 1980 and is gorgeously preserved and serves as a visitor center.
Posed beside it with a photo freight and having come all the way from their home at Steamtown National Historic Site are the Anthracite Railroad Historical Society's F3A and B and a matching F3A owned by the Tri-State Railway Historical Society. The A units were built for the Bangor and Aroostook in May 1948 as BAR 504A and 506A and the B is actually an F7 modified to look like and F3 and is of Boston and Maine heritage, having been built in Nov. 1950 as BM 4268B. All three are dressed I Lackawanna livery appropriate to the place they reside.
And if you want to learn more about this railfan event of the century in case you weren't there this gentleman has a fabulous overview on his site: www.wvncrails.org/streamliners-at-spencer.html
Spencer, North Carolina
Friday May 30, 2014
Streamliner passenger cars - preserved by the Gold Coast Railroad Museum in MIami-Dade County Florida. Train rides are available on weekends at present (Check with the museum on actual times, availability and cost).
The future was retro
The Saturn streamliner is a passenger train operating on a suspension railway during an alternate retro-futuristic timeline. The name “Saturn” was chosen based on the distinctive ring shape of the support pylons, which are made using Technic curved gear racks that mimic the look of cast iron and are strong enough to hold the weight of the train. The locomotive and passenger car can slide freely on the rail. A single minifig walks across the Art Deco display stand to provide a sense of scale and setting with his sensibly styled suit.
The birthplace of NASCAR
A lot was going on here....owners, drivers....fans....just zoomed in for this shot. Saw Mike Helton, Senior NASCAR Guru. Guess I should have photographed him..but fans were all posing for pictures,,,,and my mission was complete for Flickr Friday.
Left to Right:
Nickel Plate 190 (Alco PA-1)
Norfolk Southern 4271 (F9)
Erie 833 (E8)
Southern 6900 (E8)
Pennsylvania 5711 (E8)
Central of Georgia 812 (E8)
Pan Am 1 (FP9)
Sitting around the Goulburn turntable during the Streamliners 22 event are 42105,4201,4204,S311,GM19,GM10,S303 during the Saturday night fireworks spectacular on 1-10-22
Streamliner at 26D
A4 60009 ‘Union of South Africa’ adds to the atmosphere inside Bury’s Baron Street shed on Saturday afternoon...
Union Pacific E9 No. 951 leads a Salt Lake City to Cheyenne officer's special along the Price River approaching Kyune, Utah on June 22, 2000.
The full Pacific Limited Group excursion to Bend, Oregon highballs Oregon’s Memaloose State Park in the Columbia River Gorge. This impressive Union Pacific streamliner had seven domes and 19 cars, including two from the recently acquired Chicago & North Western.
A review of some Official Guides revealed that UP never had a scheduled streamlined train that went east from Portland in the morning. In 1950, for example, the hallowed City of Portland streamliner departed the Rose City at 5:30pm eastbound, with the Portland Rose following later in the evening. If you wanted to see the Columbia River Gorge in the daytime from the Oregon side, UP train 12, the Idahoan, was for you. It had an 8:10am departure, but it was definitely not a streamliner. The train's listing in the Official Guide revealed a mix of standard heavyweights and streamlined cars. Five years later, UP 12 was a nameless mail train with only a rider coach for passengers.
Just before Amtrak, the Portland Rose schedule changed to a morning departure out of Portland. During this same time period, the City of Portland departed eastward at 2:45pm. However, by 1970, the "streamliner" UP called the Portland Rose consisted of two coaches and a cafe-lounge car, pulled by a lone E unit. That model railroad-sized train had nothing on the monster we saw here between Hood River and The Dalles.
If only there were a train across the river on BNSF. Well, the streamliner was making a return trip the following day...