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Every now and then I take out my old Santa Fe Super Chief out of its storage boxes for some 9v exercise. I've always enjoyed the design of the set, but now for the first time after 12 years, I felt like it needed a little fresh cell therapy.
What better than a rainy sunday to tinker with it in LDD? And while I was on it, I added the long-overdue B-unit and placed them both in a desert landscape just for fun (and to compensate for the cold rain outside ;-).
Now, modifying such a famous classic model is allways risky, as it might come out worse than the original (hope it's not the case here ;-). Or one could go too far and end up rebuilding it from scratch, which might sometimes be easier and more accurate. But that's not what I wanted - I wanted it to still say "Lego 10020".
So I decided to act very carefully, just stretch the old F unit by 2 studs, smoothen the rough edges and eliminate open studs, while still preserving the characteristics and the playability of the original set. I did add some details here and there, though - it finally has exhaust stacks now, woohoo!
Ah, sweet nostalgia - here I go again, collecting old grey pieces…
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Stowe School's Grade 1 listed Corinthian Arch in Buckinghamshire forms the background to my shot of a Czech Tatra 603 car. The arch dates from 1765, and is attributed to Thomas Pitt, Lord Camelford. There is a three-storey dwelling built into each "leg", but only windows and doors to the side, so normally a viewer looking through the arch towards the school will be unaware of the dwellings.
This particular 603 dates from 1959, though it has been rebodied by Tatra to the later body style. The 603 was a highly advanced passenger car - handbuilt, with a rear-mounted, air cooled V8 engine, electronic controlled ignition (one of the first cars to feature that), all round disc brakes and six-seat limousine comfort, all wrapped up in a spectacular streamlined body.
Taken during SALT 8, the UK's only rally for Cold War Classics, held June 6-8 2014. We got to park the cars here by special permission of the National Trust.
Camera: Nikon F5
Lens: Nikkor 28-80mm
Film: Kodak Ektar 100
For more of my photographs, see here
Ex-LNER A4 streamlined Pacific, 60009 'Union of South Africa' heads the Torbay Express (08:00 Bristol Temple Meads to Kingswear) away from Whiteball Tunnel on Sunday, 15th July 2018.
Due to a Network Rail restriction on steam locomotives running on full power and the possibility of lineside fires, the A4 is just idling whilst the accompanying Class 66 is doing the work.
A bought this stream-liner today, a bit scarce, only 100 were made by Daeki (Korea) for NPP in 1984. (Photos 1 and 2 are from Brasstrains website)
Well it's not a F-unit streamliner by any means, but if you look closely this former EMD demonstrator GP59 was still rocking it's unique streamlined cab as it leaves Attalla with local A54 on Black Friday in 2012. This was a reliable weekday catch back in those days, and they're heading for the AG branch to Gadsden with interchange traffic for shortline Alabama & Tennessee River Railway.
The doors to the inside open, but there are no interior details. The yellow 1 x 4 bricks (actually supposed to be green) on the sides will have this print: www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3010pb119...
+++ DISCLAIMER +++
Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
The Vickers Type 287 was a British 1930s light bomber built by Vickers-Armstrongs at Brooklands near Weybridge, Surrey, for the Royal Air Force. The Type 287 was originally built as a private venture and designed as a single-engine monoplane with a very high aspect ratio wing, and a manually operated, retractable undercarriage. It used the same geodetic design principles for both the fuselage and wings that had been derived from that used by Barnes Wallis in the airship R100. As it was not known how the geodetic structure could cope with being disrupted by a bomb bay, the Wellesley's bomb load was carried in two streamlined panniers under the wings.
The RAF ultimately ordered a total of 176 of the two-seater aircraft, with a 14-month production run starting in March 1937, and it was introduced into service the same year.
While it was obsolete by the start of the Second World War, and unsuited to the European air war. By the outbreak of the Second World War, the Wellesley had been phased out from home based squadrons, with only four examples remaining in Britain, but remained in service with three squadrons based in the Middle East. The Wellesley Mk. I bomber was successfully used in the desert theatres of East Africa, Egypt and the Middle East, where it was used until 1942.
While the Wellesley was not a significant combat aircraft, the design principles that were tested in its construction were put to good use with the Wellington medium bomber that became one of the main types of RAF Bomber Command in the early years of the European war.
The GR Mk. IV (Type 301) was a late special development for the RAF Coastal Command. It was actually a stopgap solution - during the first three years of the Second World War, Coastal Command and the Admiralty fought a continuous battle with the RAF and Air Ministry over the primacy of trade defense in relation to the bomber effort against mainland Germany, a strategic tussle which conceivably could have cost the Western Alliance the Battle of the Atlantic. The Air Staff and Bomber Command enjoyed the backing of Churchill and the maritime air effort struggled to receive the recognition it needed. On the outbreak of war, the Coastal Command’s order of battle listed just 298 aircraft, of which only 171 were operational.
Owing to the starvation of resources, even as late as March 1943 the Atlantic supply lines were being threatened. This situation arose as a direct result of the lack of very long-range aircraft. The Wellesley, even though basically outdated, offered a quick and proven basis for a radar-equipped maritime reconnaissance aircraft, especially for the Mediterranean, Middle East and African theatres, as these were regarded as less risky than the battle of the Atlantic or over the North Sea.
The Wellesley GR Mk. IV was a heavily modified version of the Mark I, built from existing airframes that were returned to Great Britain for conversion at Weybridge and Chester. A total of 28 aircraft were modified in early 1942.
The GR Mk. IV featured an ASV Mark III radar with a radome under the fuselage and additional mast antennae on fuselage and wings. The crew rose to three, as an operator for the ASV radar joined pilot and navigator/gunner, was placed behind the pilot.
In order to improve survivability the aircraft's defensive armament was considerably improved: instead of a single .303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers K machine gun in the Mk. I's rear cockpit, a powered dorsal turret, equipped with four 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Browning machine guns, was installed. The Brownings were electrically fired and insulated cut-off points in the turret ring prevented the guns firing when they were pointing at the propeller disc or tailplane.
The wing-mounted .303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers machine gun was retained, as well as the capability to carry up to 2,000 lb (907 kg) of bomb ordnance in underwing panniers. These were modified to carry up to four 450 lb (200 kg) Mark VII depth charges and an array of flash bombs for night missions, as the GR Mk. IV could not carry a Leigh Light.
In order to keep overall performance up despite the additional equipment on board and the extra drag created through radome and gun turret, the original Bristol Pegasus XX 9 cylinder radial piston engine with 925 hp (690 kW) was replaced by a 14 cylinder 1.525 hp (1.121 kW) Hercules VI powerplant.
The complete front of the engine had to be modified in order to take the heavier and much more powerful engine, similar to the Type 289 and 292 long range conversions of the basic Wellesley. As a further means of keeping the performance up, parts of the original steel fuselage structure were replaced by light alloy elements.
All GR Mk. IV's were sent to the Mediterranean theatre in summer 1942, primarily for defensive tasks, e. g. defending supply lines. The aircraft also took part in Operation Torch (initially called Operation Gymnast), the British-American invasion of French North Africa in World War II during the North African Campaign, which started on 8 November 1942.
By 1943 Coastal Command finally received the recognition it needed and its operations proved decisive in the victory over the U-Boats, and when more powerful Vickers Wellington aircraft became available, the Wellesleys of Coastal Command were withdrawn or deployed to Greece, and performed various support duties during the RAF interference in the Greek Civil War. By 1944, the last aircraft had been retired.
General characteristics:
Crew: 3
Length: 39 ft 3 in (11.96 m)
Wingspan: 74 ft 7 in (22.73 m)
Height: 15 ft 3½ in (4.67 m)
Wing area: 630 ft² [11] (58.5 m²)
Empty weight: 6,760 lb (3,066 kg)
Loaded weight: 11,048 lb (5,011 kg)
Max. takeoff weight: 12,500 lb (5,670 kg)
Powerplant:
1× Bristol Hercules VI, rated at 1,675 hp (1,250 kW)
Performance:
Maximum speed: 228 mph (198 kn, 369 km/h) at 19,700 ft (6,000 m)
Cruise speed: 180 mph (157 kn, 290 km/h) at 15,000 ft (4,600 m) (57% power)
Range: 1,220 mi (1,963 km)
Service ceiling: 25,500 ft (7,772 m)
Wing loading: 18 lb/ft² (86 kg/m²)
Power/mass: 0.08 hp/lb (0.14 kW/kg)
Climb to 15,000 ft (4,600 m): 17.8 min
Armament:
5× .303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers machine guns, one fixed forward in the right wing, four in a dorsal powered turret
Up to 2.000 lb (907 kg) of bombs in underwing panniers
The kit and its assembly:
Honestly, this kit conversion was inspired by an idea from fellow users (NARSES2 and pyro-manic) at whatifmodelers.com, who suggested a Wellesley in Coastal Command service. I have always liked these aircraft's elegant livery with a dark top side, white undersides and a very high waterline - and using THIS on a Wellesley, which traditionally carried Dark Green/Dark Earth uppers and Night (Black) undersides, would certainly look cool.
But it would certainly not remain a standard Mk. I bomber for sure, and as I cooked up a story I found the idea of a re-engined, radar-equipped reconnaissance aircraft pretty convincing - the Wellesley's long range and payload (the thing could carry more than it weighed itself!) made it an excellent choice.
The basis is the vintage Matchbox kit, which actually has some nice features. The geodetic surface is fine and not over-emphasized, just the landing gear is rather poor - I decided to drill open the landing gear wells and add some interior, as the kit offers OOB offer neither a well nor any detail. Inside, I glued parts from a plastic cookie box - not intended to be realistic, I just wanted to have some depth and structure.
As further means to enhance the overall look I also lowered the flaps, which was easy to realize.
Engine conversion to a Hercules (from a Matchbox Wellington bomber) was straightforward, as the Wellesley kit not only offers the original Jupiter engine of the Mk. I. bomber, but also an alternative, streamlined engine cowling for the Type 292 Long Range Development Aircraft. This offers a nice adapter for the Hercules – and with the bigger propeller and a spinner, this changes the look of the Wellesley a lot.
In order to beef up rearward defense I decided to implant a powered gun turret - a quadruple .303 turret from a Boulton Paul Defiant. The turret was taken from a Pavla kit and consists of styrene and resin parts, plus a vacu canopy. The gunner is a personal addition, I think it comes from a Matchbox Privateer, from one of the optional dorsal turrets.
Mounting the Defiant turret in the fuselage was tricky, as the turret is relatively wide, almost the same diameter as the Wellesley’s. I placed it where the original navigator cockpit with the rearwards-facing Vicker K is located. I carefully opened up the fuselage around that opening until the turret would fit, and then added covers made from styrene strips so that the whole thing would look a bit organic and streamlined. Inside, the turret sits on a styrene axis, so that it can be inserted/taken out at will. Very handy during painting, and the construction makes the turret 360° turnable.
Otherwise, the interior was taken OOB, as there’s hardly anything to identify once the canopy is fitted. The latter would remain closed, anyway.
The radome under the fuselage was a late addition: originally I had planned to add antenna masts for an ASV Mk. II radar, but then found the ASV Mk. III radome from the aforementioned Matchbox Wellington kit. As the Wellesley did not have a bomb bay, that space between the landing gear was just perfect. And while it would not be necessary I still added some antenna masts (scratched from heated sprues) under the wings and on the fuselage flanks - it just looks cool... ;)
Painting and markings:
The interior (cockpit, turret, landing gear) was painted in classic Interior Green (Humbrol 78).
On the outside, rather simple, classic Coastal Command colors were used: Dark Sea Grey and Dark Slate Grey on the upper side, with the pattern taken from the RAF Wellesley, and white undersides with a very high waterline and white leading edges on the wings.
Painting started with the lower sides – I used spray paint from the rattle can, since the large areas are hard to paint, esp. with white. Consequently I rather used a very light grey (RAL 7047, Telegrau 4), since pure white would be too bright/ by tendency. The color pictures I consulted for reference suggest that these machines would easily tend to become dirty, much room for weathering! After basic spray painting, the “white” areas received a counter-shading and dry-brushing with Humbrol 196 (RAL 7035, Lichtgrau), which is slightly more yellow-ish and lighter than RAL 7047.
After that had dried up, waterlines and leading edges were masked with Tamiya Tape, for the upper colors. Humbrol 27 and 224 were used as basic enamel colors, as they are the darkest tones for the job. Later, these were treated with Modelmasters’ 2056 and 2059, in order to weather the upper surfaces and work out the geodetic structure – similar procedure as for the lower surfaces.
The kit received a wash with black ink and serious dry-brushing in order to work out the wonderful surface structure - basically with some Humbrol 64 (Light Sea Grey) all around - no pure white has been used on the kit at all. Dirt, soot and stains were added with grinded graphite and thinned Humbrol 224.
Decals were puzzled together from the scrap box, from various RAF aircraft. Even though I took 179th Squadron Wellingtons as benchmark, I decided to add a full three-digit code with dull red letters – it adds an eye-catcher to the aircraft’s flanks, and the letters come from a MIcroscale aftermarket sheet.
The respective Wellingtons only had scarce markings and just single-letter codes (the full squadron code, "OZ", had obviously been omitted?).
In the end, not a major conversion, but the different paint scheme and the more massive nose change the overall look of the Wellesley considerably. I am quite happy with the result.
Bugatti 1934 streamlined railcar at the Citi du Train (National Railway Museum) in Mulhouse, France. Famed for their speed records (one reached 196 km/h in 1937) a total of 88 were built in a variety of configurations, this being one of the luxury "Presidential" type. The car has a total of 16 wheels (see photo later in this group). This is the only Bugatti railcar preserved, having been converted to an inspection vehicle after retirement in 1958, and used in its new role until 1970.
More on the history of the Bugatti railcars can be found here: retours.eu/en/23-autorail-bugatti/#
Sir Nigel Gresleys A4 pacific streamlined class locomotives were first used on the world's longest, for the time, non-stop London to Scotland journey. The train was named 'The Silver Jubilee' and thus required matching named engines such as this 'Silverlink'. Resplendent in polished aluminium and grey/blue with black livery and a matching rake of coaches these trains took Britains public by storm in the 30s, however they weren't the first as the LMS Royal Scot took that acalade by 3 days.
My MOC is based on a 7 wide design with working connecting rods and piston gear. I've used SNOT and a reversed building technique around the front area but have cheated with use of custom made parts for the chimney. The wheels are by BigBenbricks and have been painted using Posca paint pens to match the livery. All markings are hand painted on. Hope you enjoy the visuals ;-)
The Speed series of 50 cigarette cards issued by W.D. & H.O. Wills in 1938 provide a fascinating vignette of the Streamlined Age just before the world descended into total war. One card featured the high-speed coaches built by Mercedes-Benz to link cities on Germany’s showpiece autobahn network.
The streamlined diesel-powered vehicles seated 30 passengers and travelled at speeds of over 70 mph.
No other country could match Germany for high-speed road networks until well into the postwar years. The United States did not launch its Interstate Highway programme until 1956, the United Kingdom was even slower to follow suit with its motorways.
Ironically, after a postwar Germany began to recover and rebuild, scheduled high-speed coach services did not return until the 21st century. In common with other European Union member countries, the state-owned Deutsches Bundesbahn and its DB successor enjoyed protected status against road competition in both freight and passenger operations. The transport market only began to be freed up in the 21st century.
Norfolk Southern operated N&W streamlined J-class 4-8-4 Northern coal burning steam locomotive# 611 with the details of the coupling between the tender and auxiliary water tender seen at Chattanooga, Tennessee, October 1989. Sometimes a view such as this is interesting for the detailed oriented model railroad fans.
Norfolk & Western streamlined Powhatan Arrow observation car # 581 is seen with it's train near Singer, Virginia 8-12-1949. The six car Powhatan Arrow is being hauled by a N&W J class streamlined 4-8-4 northern steam locomotive. Note the old style tail end marker lamps being used on the observation car. The observation car has a Powhatan Arrow tail sign located on it's rear door. In my opinion this photograph appears to be a staged event with the train either stopped or moving very slowly as indicated by the lack of smoke from the locomotive and the direction of the steam escaping from the observation car's train-line. Also there are not any people sitting in the rear of the observation car to indicate this is a revenue train trip. Photo courtesy of Sylvain Assez's railroad photo collection. Sylvain is an active French railway locomotive engineer. This photo was most likely taken by the N&W for advertisement. Photographer unknown.
The name of the photographer that took this photo is unknown.
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On the streamlined Alfasud coupé, the 2.5 V6 in a central position.
Racing chassis and a configuration for four-wheel drive.
Museo Storico Alfa-Romeo
Viale Alfa-Romeo
Arese
Italy - Italia
November 2018
Streamlined Moderne building (Built in 1948) with fairly new buildings in the background - December 28, 2018.
I bought this little engine on Ebay this evening. (seller's photos) I really like the running characteristics of the Broadway Limited "Hybrid" models, so for the price I couldn't pass it up.
The BLI imported models are brass and die cast construction, the boiler and tender structures are fabricated sheet brass, while the frame of, both, the engine and tender is die cast metal. They come factory painted and equipped with a can motor with flywheel drive, sound, smoke and complete lighting and run on DC and DCC systems. They are excellent models for the cost.
Scale: HO
Category: Steam
Type: STREAMLINED
Road: New York Central (NYC)
Whyte: 4-6-4
Description: DREYFUSS HUDSON J-3A
Importer: BLI (Hybrid Series)
Catalog: 1146
Year(s): 2014
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Located in the Santos district to the West of the city centre, the Cinearte Cinema opened in 1938. It was designed by architect Raul Rodrigues Lima in a splendid Art Deco style that has modernistic streamlined looks both externally and internally.
The main feature of the auditorium decoration is the very striking ceiling of cove lighting fins which extend forward to the proscenium opening.
By 1990 it had been closed as a cinema and after a period of use as a banana warehouse. In more recent years it has found a new use as a live theatre space (split into two auditoriums) for the A Barraca theatre group who present productions of modern Portuguese and European classics.
Summer of ‘57
I’m comfortably ensconced in a deluxe seat in Southern stainless steel streamlined coach 903, “Pulaski.” It’s July 5, 1957, and my father, mother and sister are en route to Philadelphia, where my uncle and aunt will meet us for a month-long vacation in the City of Brotherly Love. Not quite ten years old, this summer will be incredibly special. I press my nose against the glass to see where we might be, not knowing this trip will introduce me to the hoagie sandwich; the Valley Forge battlefield; Atlantic City; the incredible wonders of Manhattan; B&O blue and gray F-units with brass Capitol dome logos on their noses, RDC cars and the passenger trains of the Royal Blue Line; Baldwin 4-10-2 three cylinder compound demonstrator No. 60000 at the Franklin Institute, and the adrenalin rush of watching Pennsy GG1s run full out by the suburban passenger shelter at Folcroft, Pennsylvania. We’ll be carried home on train 41, the “Pelican,” and arrive behind N&W class J 604. And as long as I have memory, I’ll relish standing under the umbrella shed at Bristol after we arrive that morning, listening to her cross compound air pumps, smelling the aroma of steam and valve oil, and taking in the enormity of the finest steam passenger locomotive ever built---anywhere. What a summer this will be!
But now, we’re stopped at some unknown rural location. I see no community, and no depot. The friendly conductor tells me this is Vicker, Virginia, and as it is with all Bristol-Monroe through passenger trains, the engine is taking coal to get us to Monroe, VA, where Southern E-units will take over for the last leg to Washington. This is train 46, the Memphis-New York “Tennessean,” one of six (three each way) daily inter-road Southern Railway passenger trains handled by the N&W between Bristol, VA and Monroe, just north of Lynchburg.
The brakes release, and imperceptibly we get underway again. Even nine cars back you can hear the bark of the big class J up front---611. Slowly the sun of the day is gone and the evening turns overcast---then dark---and then the Heavens open up and the rain falls—in buckets. The 611 isn’t fazed. Her veteran Radford Division engineer clamps down tighter on his Harvester-brand cigar, widens on her and pulls the reverser back toward center just a bit. As we twist and turn on the 1.3 percent grade toward Christiansburg, we pick up speed---quickly. Hanging on the 611’s head pin are three old Pennsy express boxes, two baggage cars of storage mail, the RPO, a baggage-dorm/coach, four coaches, a Southern diner, and the Memphis-New York 14 roomette, 4 double bedroom Pullman.
The rain intensifies as the J’s booming baritone Hancock chime whistle clears the grade crossing below the golf course below Christiansburg. You can hear the sharp crack of the engine’s exhaust echo off the hills and hollows through the coach window. I can only imagine what it’s like to be there in the cab at this moment. We’re still 15 minutes late owing to a 45-minute late arrival off the Southern at Bristol, but this marvelous 5200 horsepower marvel of Virginia ingenuity and craftsmanship has shaved 30 minutes en route---and the engine crew apparently still believes it can get to Roanoke on time. Don’t bet against ‘em.
In five more months, the Js will be replaced on the Bristol trains by Southern diesels running through. And a few months after that, leased RF&P and ACL E-units--available during the summer lull in the East Coast passenger trade to Florida--will replace the Js on the Cincinnati-Norfolk trains. Things are changing quickly, and this will never be happen again in my lifetime. Or…will it?
Ron Flanary
NOTE: The image was taken on July 5, 2015, with some details altered using Photoshop to come closer to the look and feel of July 5, 1957. The story is all true, except for some minor details I can’t recall (the number of the coach we were riding, and the actual number of the J on eastbound number 46 that day).
Another one of the Vélo-Torpille (= torpedo-shaped bicycle) and its designer, the French engineer Étienne Bunau-Varilla (1890-1961).
Photo pulled out (not by me) from an unknown book.
This vélo-torpille was one of the first streamlined bicycles ever. The air resistance can be over 90 per cent of the total retarding force on a bicycle. The skin of the vélo-torpille, made of celluloid on a wooden frame, reduced that force substantially. It weighted 17 kilo.
The bicycle was special designed to get and hold the cycling Hour Record (= the longest distance which an individual can cycle in one hour).
In those days, the first years of the 20th century, that record was primary a fight between the Frenchman Marcel Berthet and the Swiss Oscar Egg. Six times the record changed from Berthet to Egg and back.
In 1913 Marcel Berthet was holding the UCI hour record (Union Cycliste Internationale) on the classic race bicycle with 43.77 km/h, when he reached an average speed of 52.3 km/h in his new vélo-torpille. He also established records on the 1, 5 and 10 km with this machine.
But the UCI decided to not recognize these records and to ban streamlining from regular racing. So in 1914 Egg rode a time which Berthet could not beat again: 44.247km/h.
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The Bell P-63 Kingcobra, along with its predecessor the P-39 Airacobra, was one of the most perfectly streamlined fighters of WWII. Both featured a radical design that placed the engine behind the pilot to make space for a 37mm cannon up front firing through the propeller hub.
Unfortunately, unlike a mid-engine racing car, placing all the weight in the center of an airplane does not make it more maneuverable in tight turns. The Bell fighters earned a reputation for spinning that did not endear them to pilots. The Russians, however, did great things with both models against German bombers and FW-190s on the Kuban front, with some earning as many as 50 victories in the little rear-engined hot rods.
The P-63 was an upgrade of the P-39, with a taller tail to improve stability and a laminar flow wing to reduce drag; but it still had a low-altitude Allison engine in it rather than a Packard Merlin, and so it never had the high altitude performance that was needed in most USAAF service. The good record of both aircraft on the Russian front owed much to Soviet tactics and the fact that battles on that front took place close to the front lines at altitudes below 20,000 feet.
This P-63 is located at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson Arizona.
This electric engine (number 9028) was originally designed as a un-streamlined freight workhorse for use in the mountains of the Western half of the North American continent on a electrified section of the Lego-Land Rail-Road mainline back in 1918. The engine uses a unusual 2+C-2-C+2 arrangement, which is code for two un-powered wheels then these are connected to six powered wheels connected to each other by steam-style driving rods. In the middle is a set of completely separate two un-powered wheels, and then six more powered drivers, lastly followed by two sets of non-powered wheels connected to the drivers by a pin.
After serving dutifully for around seven years as a freight loco, the engine was upgraded to a fully streamline-shrouded passenger unit after another of it's eight-strong class was destroyed in a accident with a stuck Shell tanker truck blocking a road crossing. The 9028 was also given a higher gear ratio in it's trucks, to allow for the higher speeds that the passenger schedule called for.
It was around 1932, that the engine type was first given it's title as the "American Crocodile", or the "Alligator", by a senior Swedish railway official on vacation. The name was picked up by local, then national railroad press, and the name stuck from then on.
(In reality, the loco was screaming for new pantograph's due to the old one's breaking, so I gave it some based on set 10277's leaked pictures. Also, this uses eight Big Ben Bricks medium drivers + four blind drivers for the driving wheels where the gears are. I swapped in the new steamer wheels because the regular wheels are getting scarce, and I need to conserve them as much as I can. I ordered the few parts I don't already have to complete this version of the engine today, so they should be here soon... maybe a week or two for the wheels.)
The streamlined goosander is a handsome bird and a great fisher - its long, serrated bill helps it to catch and hold its slippery fish prey. It nests in riverbank trees, but can be seen on lakes and reservoirs in winter.
Statistics
Length: 57-69cm
Wingspan: 90cm
Weight: 1.3-1.7kg
Average lifespan: 7 years
Conservation status
Classified in the UK as Green under the Birds of Conservation Concern 4: the Red List for Birds (2021).
When to see
January to December
The Vélo-Torpille (= torpedo-shaped bicycle) and its designer, the French engineer Étienne Bunau-Varilla (1890-1961). (Apparently he had a 'breveté S.G.D.G.', as you can read on the skin of the vélo-torpille)
This vélo-torpille was one of the first streamlined bicycles ever. The air resistance can be over 90 per cent of the total retarding force on a bicycle. The skin of the vélo-torpille, made of celluloid on a wooden frame, reduced that force substantially. It weighted 17 kilo.
The bicycle was special designed to get and hold the cycling Hour Record (= the longest distance which an individual can cycle in one hour).
In those days, the first years of the 20th century, that record was primary a fight between the Frenchman Marcel Berthet and the Swiss Oscar Egg. Six times the record changed from Berthet to Egg and back.
In 1913 Marcel Berthet was holding the UCI hour record (Union Cycliste Internationale) on the classic race bicycle with 43.77 km/h, when he reached an average speed of 52.3 km/h in his new vélo-torpille. He also established records on the 1, 5 and 10 km with this machine.
But the UCI decided to not recognize these records and to ban streamlining from regular racing. So in 1914 Egg rode a time which Berthet could not beat again: 44.247km/h.
Another streamlined bicycle in my photostream: Göricke.
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The skin of the velo torpille made the bike about 6.5 kilometers per hour faster. But at the same time this bicycle was very unstable in cross winds.
The press release can also be from 1914. Because in 1913 Marcel Berthel drove - I thought - no speeds above 60 miles per hour.
This Dutch newspaper photo was ever sent to me. But unfortunately I do not remember by whom.
Behalve 'Torpedo-fiets' zie ik (rond 1908) ook wel 'Torpedovisch' staan. Wedstrijden tussen een gewone fietser en zo'n torpedo worden steevast gewonnen door de torpedo. Maar veel sneller dan de gewone fietser gaat de torpedo niet.
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I was going to put MKT (standing for Missouri - Kansas - Texas Railroad, the same owner of Katy caboose, and from where she gets her name) on the sides of the new caboose where the printed brick is but in printed 1 x 1 letters, but the needed green 1 x 4 Technic bricks were problematic, as was the two letter T's that I don't have. Also, the doors to the inside open, but there are no interior details.
Norfolk Southern operated N&W streamlined J-class 4-8-4 Northern steam locomotive # 611 leads a northbound Railfan Excursion Train into tunnel on trip to Oneida, Tennessee, October 1989. Shortly after the photo was taken, I shut the vestibule window while in the tunnel.
Steamtown former Canadian Pacific 4-6-4 Hib class, MLW built 1930, non-streamlined Hudson steam locomotive # 2816, is seen while on display at Scranton, Pennsylvania, October 1996. The boiler jacket on the locomotive is rusting away, hower, eventually the locomotive was sold and was put into operation. The locomotive was purchased by CP in 1998 and sent to the BC Rail steam shops for a complete overhaul, including some updates, costing 2 millon dollars. The 2816 made its first test run on BC rails in 2001. This locomotive originally burned coal, however, it was converted to burn oil during the rebuilding and overhaul.
Streamlined and updated, dealership row is undergoing some changes.
Don't tell anyone, but the sales lot and staff, has shrunk considerably, and these former competitors are now part of the same automotive group.
Baynard Motors
Keys Blvd.
Mystic Beach
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II
Olympus M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R
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The avant-garde, streamlined design of the Tatra 87 looks rather like an insect, not least because of the large rear fin. The three headlights are also typical of the Tatra design. The low drag coefficient (Cd) of 0.36 enabled the car with its air-cooled three-litre, V8 engine to attain a speed of 150 km/h. However, at that speed driving the car became dangerous - the heavy rear engine made the tail hard to handle.
The Austrian engineer Hans Ledwinka joined the Czech company Tatra in 1921 as technical director. He invented the 'backbone chassis' and developed aerodynamic designs for motorcars. The design of this particular Tatra dates back to the pre-war years. Ledwinka was a close colleague of Ferdinand Porsche, but when the Volkswagen Beetle was introduced, Tatra claimed that Porsche had copied their design. The court case was interrupted by the war, but Volkswagen later admitted Tatra's influence.
Gallaher's Cigarettes "Trains of the World" issued in 1937.
#40 Streamlined Locomotive, Pennsylvania Railroad
Norfolk Southern operated N&W streamlined J-class 4-8-4 Northern steam locomotive # 611 leads its northbound Railfan Excursion Train through a main line "S" curve in Tennessee, October 1989. This Railfan Excursion Train is operating on the former Southern Railway main line between Chattanooga and Oneida, Tennessee.
Tatra T87 (1936-50) Engine 2969cc V8 OHC Production 3056
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Designed by Hans Ledwinka and Erich Übelacker, and based on the earlier Tatra T77. The body design was based on proposals submitted by Paul Jaray of Hungarian descent, who designed the famous German Graf Zeppelin dirigibles. A fin in the sloping rear of the Tatra helps to divide the air pressure on both sides of the car, a technique used in later aircraft, giving the car a drag coefficent of 0.36, (measured in the VW wind tunnel in 1979).Small sets of windows in the dividers between the passenger, luggage space and engine compartments, plus louvres providing air for the air-cooled engine, allowed limited rear visibility. Its entire rear segment could be opened, to service the engine.
Its V8 OHC air cooled engine, priduced 85bhp, which thanks to its aerodybamics gave the car a top speed of around 100mph.
From 1950-53 the car was updated with a more modern 2.5-litre V8 T603 engine.
The T87 was an expensive car sold as a five seater limousine and was priced at 25000 Sfr. the equivelent today of around $ 125,000 US.
Famous owners have included:
Hans Ledwinka its designer who took one as a retiremeny present, that car is now on display in the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
Ernest Heinkel - German aircraft designer, whoes company produced the first turbojet
Felix Wankel - German engineer and creator of the Wankel engine.
Erwin Rommel - German Field Marshal
Andrey Yeryomenko - Soviet Field Marshal
John Steinbeck - American writer - The Grapes of Wrath
King Farouk 1 of Egypt
Jay Leno - American stand-up comedian and television host
Norman Foster - British architect
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Shot 04:06:2014 in Malaga Motor Museum REF: 102-122
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Woody Brown’s streamlined catamaran Lio Kai (seahorse in Hawaiian) off Waikiki Beach. Vintage but undated commercial souvenir Travelchrome Sides by Finley’s Color Laboratory, Montebello, Calif.
Photo details
- "Lio Kai" painted on the bow of the catamaran
- 1899 Waikiki Elks Club Kainalu on the water, far right
- 1927 Waikiki Natatorium War memorial, just below the catamaran’s main sail
- Diamond Head Crater in the distance
This Classic Space-based version of a generic diesel switcher loco is streamlined to match the other locomotives on the Lunar Railroad with a shark-nose at the front for the CS logo.
Produced for presentation at the 1939 New York World's Fair a booklet issued by one of the railroad greats - the Pennsylvania Railroad and describing the new rolling stock the company was then introducing. This page shows the construction of some of the iconic GG1 electric locomotives designed and built for services on the PRR's flagship route between Washington DC and New York City.
In my opinion, this is probably one of the finest pieces of industrial design ever built - the GG-1 Class electric locomotives of the Pennsy. As is often the case with 'classics' there's been some debate about the precise designer of these fine locos as they are usually credited to the designer Raymond Loewy - however, now, it should be mentioned that the earlier works on this class were carried out by the equally famous Donald Roscoe Dohne. It was certainly Loewy who developed the final shape and livery - green until 1952 and then the classic Tuscan Red used by the Pennsy. The locos, 139 0f them in total, ran between 1934 and 1983. They were built by General Electric and the Railroad's Altoona Locomotive Works and it could be these are the erecting shops at Altoona?
Pennsylvania Railroad EMD E7A, class EP20, 2,000 HP diesel electric locomotive # 5882, is seen at the railroad's facility in East Altoona, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1955. Notice the large front number boards applied to this locomotive. Also notice the inductive radio - phone antena mounted on the locomotive's roof. The paint on this passenger locomotive looks like it's new. View the nose mounted frame extension lifting rings along the bottom of the nose door. The Pennsy used the streamlined passenger style pilot on this locomotive as compared to the F style pilot found on many other E-units used by other railroads.
The photographer that took this photo is John Dziobko Jr. (www.GodfatherRails.com)
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This streamlined pitcher was originally designed in 1948 by Clarence M. Burroughs and made by the Burroughs Co., Los Angeles, USA., molded of Burrite, their trade name for Polystyrene plastic. This one is a copy, made in Brazil circa 1963 by Eltex. Chances are it was not a licensed copy. Lots of American and European designs were pirated by the Brazilian industry in the 1950s and 60s.
It is about 23 cm high.
A streamlined version of the previous network shows the connections among categories, subjects and types of sources.
Built in 1938 by Crewe Locomotive works, it was the last of the first batch of 10 locomotives all fitted with the streamlined casing. Following the war the steamlining was removed to make servicing easier. In 1964 she was withdrawn from mainline service and preserved by Sir Billy Butlin as a feature for his holiday camp. In 1975 she was taken into the National Rail collection on a 20 year loan and restored to running state, in a non-streamlined condition. Following withdrawl from preserved running use, she returned to the collection as a static exhbit. In 2005 it was announced she would be returned to the streamlined look. This work carried out by Tyseley Museum workshops was completed in 2009, since which she has been at York on display.
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A gleaming stainless steel train car rests at a Lisbon station platform, its horizontal ribbing and polished surfaces reflecting a mid-20th-century design aesthetic. The industrial precision of the carriage contrasts with the cast-iron columns and roof trusses of the historic station, where ornate architectural details meet the raw functionality of modern transport. Through the narrow windows, glimpses of the red-trimmed interior hint at countless journeys across Portugal’s rail network. This composition emphasizes geometry and texture—the rhythm of riveted metal, the interplay of shadows, and the framing of urban buildings beyond—capturing Lisbon as both a city of heritage and forward momentum.
The streamlined Kansas City Southern F units races through Pickering, LA with the Office Car Special on the return trip from Laredo, TX to Shreveport, LA.
LMS streamlined Coronation Class 4-6-2 "Duchess of Hamilton" is seen inside National Railway Museum the at York.
Czech Tatra 603 at rest. This is a 1959 car, and has a 2.5L air-cooled, rear-mounted V8 engine to power its six-seat streamlined body.
Taken during SALT 8, the UK's only rally for Cold War Classics, held June 6-8 2014.
Camera: Nikon F5
Lens: Nikkor 28-80mm
Film: Kodak Ektar 100
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