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Chicago Burlington & Quincy #9911 prepares to pull a short train of passengers on the grounds of the North Carolina Transportation Museum in 2014. She came down from the Streamliners at Spencer event, just a short distance from her old stomping grounds.
CBQ 9911A was built by EMD in 1940 as an E5A and named the Silver Pilot. The chrome paint is a classy touch.
8878 Hopper Transfer from Port Augusta to Lithgow was operated by SSR Streamliners B61 S317 GM27 GM10 and S302, ahead of 96 empty coal hoppers.
Starting at Blayney, this series of images follows the train through to Bathurst (where they left the hoppers) and then onto Lithgow.
Locations are attached to each photo.
GM27-GM15-GM1-CLP11-42105 sit around the turntable at Goulburn.
GM1 was the first mainline diesel locomotive for the Commonwealth railways and is known as a ML1 model
This Scania R 450 Streamline from Poland, was parked up at Wetherby Services. The truck was also a 'Crown Edition' some kind of special/limited edition of the Streamline Scania. The truck had no signwriting on it, and was registered to the city of Tychy, located 15km south of Katowice in southern Poland.
Wetherby Services, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Mounted on the side of UP 951 is this General Motors builders plate, denoting the E9 simply as an 0-6-6-0. Serial number 20488 rolled off the production line at La Grange, Illinois in June 1955.
Australia's very first EMD streamliner was GM1, entering service in September 1951 for Commonwealth Railways.
8878 Hopper Transfer from Port Augusta to Lithgow was operated by SSR Streamliners B61 S317 GM27 GM10 and S302, ahead of 96 empty coal hoppers.
Starting at Blayney, this series of images follows the train through to Bathurst (where they left the hoppers) and then onto Lithgow.
Locations are attached to each photo.
B61, built for the Victorian Railways, was especially painted in this striking livery to promote this amazing one off event in Goulburn NSW. Here it holds pride of place on the turntable, the centre of "the bullring".
The B class were the first EMD powered double-ended streamliners built anywhere in the world.
B61 painted in the Streamliner scheme, is followed by GM27,S317,S302,S306 through the tight curves around Brewongle while enroute to Goulburn via Parkes on 28-9-2016
Alton Road Abraham Lincoln streamliner brochure, c1935 depicting the front of the train's early EMC boxcab loco. The Alton Road was at the time owned by the B&O, which also purchased similar streamlined equipment for the Royal Blue train at the same time. The Alton Road eventually merged in the GM&O in 1947. Scan of an original brochure in my collection.
Designed by Norman E. Timbs
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Climbing the Tehachapi mountains on a gloomy March day, a pair of clean GE C45AH units have a lengthy southbound Union Pacific business special well in hand as the train approaches Tunnel 2 on UP's Mojave Subdivision.
The future of racing looks a lot like the past. This monocoque body houses a gasoline engine, which in turn powers an electric generator which powers the floating wheels. A series of magnetic pulses force the wheel rings to turn. The result is a modern, smooth racing experience with an aesthetic that hearkens back to the early days of auto racing.