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The hood ornament of a 1941 Chevrolet Special Deluxe in the collection of Addison, Texas’ Cavanaugh Flight Museum.
With the stately Elgin Watch Works occupying a huge footprint on the other side of the Fox River, Union Pacific/Milwaukee Road Streamliner 1-111, the first section of the westbound "City of Denver" rolls past the National Street station in Elgin, Illinois on July 7, 1963. Owen Leander photo, Joe Lewnard collection.
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.
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.
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.
After the Rio Grande Zephyr made its final run between Grand Junction and Denver, Colorado on April 24, 1983, the equipment became surplus. Immediately.
D&RGW's trio of F9s were laid off, but not for long. Rio Grande assigned them to work ballast trains in both Utah and Colorado.
While the assignment was a bit of a let down for the glamour girls, the photo opportunities were priceless. Witness 5771 leading Midvale smelter slag train No. 648, ascending the Mapleton Bench between Springville and Sutro, Utah on July 20, 1983.
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!
A pair of original Boston and Maine F7s, built by EMD in 1949, were on display in North Conway, New Hampshire • 7.25.2023
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 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)
Streamliner at 26D
A4 60009 ‘Union of South Africa’ adds to the atmosphere inside Bury’s Baron Street shed on Saturday afternoon...
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 Rio Grande Zephyr train No. 18 zigs and zags through the center siding at Kyune, Utah the morning of April 8, 1983.
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...