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1933 Auburn 12-165 Salon Speedster boat-tailed, one of reportedly 14 examples, designed by Alan Leamy in a particularly nice color combo!
The Late 20s, impressive open two-seater body styled by Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky featured a boat-tail and a vee windscreen, and set the stage for later modifications.
1932 when the 12-cylinder Auburn became available, its price of $975.00 for the 12-160A model was remarkable. The V-12 cost was less than an ordinary eight cylinder medium range Chrysler product. Would customers believe that inaccurate old saw “you get what you pay for”? Well, something happened because as the company was introducing this reliable and high performing V12, the company lost almost a million dollars. The Auburn 12 offered more than a powerful V12 engine. It had a high cruising speed with a Dual Ratio rear end which, upon command from a dash-mounted lever, would offer either a 4.5 or 3.0 ratio for each of the transmission’s three gears. This reduced strain on the engine and lowered fuel consumption, despite its 6.5 liters and 160 horsepower.
Back before RUPO/PORU got abolished in favor of some lamer L053/054 runs, MEC 306 takes PORU at a decent speed (for Pan Am) through Auburn, Maine.
Placer County Superior Courthouse located in Auburn California on a hill overlooking ‘Oldtown’ Aurburn at dusk as the red & green lights within the rotunda on it’s dome for the Christmas holiday go on. Auburn is where Claud Chana first discovered gold in 1848. This courthouse dates back to 1898 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. - [ ] #developportdev @gothamtomato @developphotonewsletter @omsystem.cameras #excellent_america #omsystem @bheventspace @bhphoto @adorama @tamracphoto @tiffencompany #usaprimeshot #tamractales @visitcalifornia @kehcamera @visitauburnca @visitplacer @placercounty
The 1936 Auburn Boattail Speedster (predominantly the Model 852 Supercharged) is one of the most iconic and visually striking American cars of the Art Deco era. Designed by Gordon Buehrig, it featured a supercharged 150-horsepower straight-eight engine and an aerodynamic "boattail" rear end, and was famously certified to exceed 100 mph.
Performance & SpecsEngine: 280 CID Lycoming L-Head Inline 8-CylinderHorsepower: 150 bhp at 4,400 RPM
Transmission: 3-speed manual with a Columbia two-speed rear axle (acting effectively as a 6-speed)
Top Speed: 100+ mph (each car originally came with a dash plaque signed by race car driver Ab Jenkins verifying this speed)
Notable Features: Sleek, teardrop fenders, and prominent, chrome-plated side exhaust pipes.
Value & Collectibility
Original, ACD Club-certified 1936 Auburn Speedsters are exceedingly rare (with roughly 150 ever built) and command multi-million-dollar price tags at auction. Pristine examples have sold in the range of $1,210,000 to upwards of $2,000,000 depending on their provenance and restoration quality.
When the trail took us over the hill, at first it looked like something out of a Lord of the Rings movie.
This site near Auburn is what remains of an old limestone quarry used by a local cement company. After the mining activity here concluded, the remaining rock cliffs became an ideal place for local technical climbers to hone their skills on the weekends.
Soaring over I-80, an eastbound manifest crawls its way through Auburn. The train would struggle up the mountain the entire chase to Casa Loma, with the locomotives screaming through the foothills and mountain. Leading the way is a “Mini Shield” painted AC44, which seem to get more rare by the day as the older GEs get sent to Wabtec for rebuild.
In the longer months of the year, the sun swings around enough to get nose light for afternoon eastbounds going through Auburn, as evidenced here on this PORU. Led by one of a couple Boston & Maine engines remaining on the Pan Am roster, they're seen cruising by MP162, with one of the Maine Central's iconic granite mileposts marking it.
Auburn lies not far east of Roseville, California, and is well known among railfans. The trestle over I-80 is something you cannot possibly miss. As for myself, I sure don't! I've been wanting to shoot the Auburn trestle for a while now, and I'm glad I finally got the chance to.
UP 7400 is seen crossing the trestle on UP's Sparks-to-Roseville manifest, MSPRV. It's been exactly an hour since it reached Colfax, and it has gotten quite far behind Amtrak 5, the California Zephyr. I figured I missed it, but I had 10-15 minutes left to spare before the train arrived.
The Auburn car company originated from a coachbuilder who built his first car in 1900. In 1925 the brand was taken over by Cord, when that company went bankrupt in 1937, it took Auburn with it in its fall.
Technical information
The weight of the car
1880
Engine capacity :
4288 cm³
Power :
72 kW (98 pk)
Amount of cilinders :
8
Historie
Date of first admission : 1931
Date of first registration in the Netherlands : 2007
Date of second of registration in the Nederlands: 2022
2009 Challenge, Day 288: AUBURN
Didn't stop raining!!! So I had to run down from my office and take few shots of this window display!!!
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IANR CRWA dusts up the small town of Mt. Auburn, Iowa on its way back to Waterloo with a GP40-2LW/slug duo leading a trio of Helm Geeps.
Leaving the Historic Auburn Train Station, I glanced west and saw the silhouettes against the warm skies generated by the setting sun. iPhone 13 Pro 9.0 mm. #developportdev @gothamtomato @developphotonewsletter @omsystem.cameras #excellent_america #iphone13pro @bheventspace @bhphoto @adorama @tamracphoto @tiffencompany #usaprimeshot #tamractales @kehcamera @mpbcom @visitauburnca @visitcalifornia @apple
A very shiny 864 leads 4471 to a stand at Auburn with T281 container trip train from Port Botany to Yennora. The two locos would then get permission to ease up the grade to the platform, before crossing from the down mainline to the down suburban line.
Just getting their load of containers moving on the grade up from Lidcombe, both locos were sounding in fine form, proving that these beasts were built to last - 864 was built in 1963, with 4471 in 1966.
The elegant dome of Placer county Courthouse in old town Auburn California beautifully lit every evening overlooking the rest of old town Auburn was built between 1894 and 1897. The design of prominent architect John M. Curtis, it has been in use since then by the Placer County Superior Court. Placer the county’s name refers to deposit of sand or gravel that contains valuable minerals like gold, so it was nearby in Coloma also in Placer where James W. Marshall found gold in the placer of the American River at Sutter’s Mill in 1848 and the gold rush was on. - [x] #developportdev @gothamtomato @developphotonewsletter @omsystem.cameras #excellent_america #omsystem @bheventspace @bhphoto @adorama @tamracphoto @tiffencompany @mpbcom @kehcamera @visitplacer @visitauburnca #usaprimeshot #tamractales #omd #microfourthirds #micro43 #micro43photography @visitcalifornia
Located on the property of his dental practice in the gold rush town of Auburn California Dr Ken Fox a dentist began sculpting concrete statues of concrete poured over rebar and wire mesh between appointments at his still operating dental practice during the late 1960’s through 1970’s. At first, his first a male nude was so shocking to the Auburn community that school buses were rerouted to avoid Dr Ken Fox’s practice on Palm Avenue. Eventually though the hate became love. In this image is one of two Amazon women sculptures, with her spear. According to the research I was able to find, Ken Fox chose the bare-breasted Amazons, as he said, celebrated strong women. Panasonic Lumic DMC FZ50 Leica DC Vario-Elmarit 35-420mm f/2.8 #developportdev @gothamtomato @developphotonewsletter @omsystem.cameras #excellent_america #omsystem @bheventspace @bhphoto @adorama @tamracphoto @tiffencompany #usaprimeshot #tamractales @kehcamera @mpbcom @californiaisbeauty @lumix @visitcalifornia @visitauburnca @panasonic
A beautifully restored Concord stagecoach mail wagon used by the US Postal Service in Auburn California from the mid to late nineteenth century. Concord stagecoaches were built in Concord New Hampshire and it was easy to distinguish the ones constructed for clients west of the Mississippi, the ones east of the Mississippi had glass windows but those west did not because the early roads out west were very rough and the glass would end up breaking, so just were built without it. This particular stagecoach is at the museum located at the historic courthouse in downtown Auburn, Auburn which was a primary mail hub for the region. See the stops include Forrest Hills, Colfax and Michigan Bluff. Panasonic Lumix DMC LX100 Mark II 12-35mm f/1.7.2.8 #developportdev @gothamtomato @developphotonewsletter @omsystem.cameras #excellent_america #omsystem @bheventspace @bhphoto @adorama @tamracphoto @tiffencompany #usaprimeshot #tamractales @kehcamera @mpbcom @visitcalifornia @visitauburnca @placercounty #microfourthirds #micro43photography #micro43 @panasonic @lumix #lx100m2 #lumixlx100ii
A patch of sunlight finds Finger Lakes Railway AY-1 working in yard limits at Auburn, NY with gondolas for Nucor Steel.
FGLK 2305 B23-7 (ex-SOU/NS 3980)