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On Friday 10/9/2021, a late 6KA9 (extra SCT intermodal) is seen approaching Hender road, Cooke Plains (SA) with CLF4-csr003-EL60-sct003 in charge. Signal problems between Kaniva (Victoria) & Coomandook resulted in the train taking longer than expected
On 3rd July 1938 Gresley Streamlined A4 4-6-2 Pacific No 4468 Mallard hit 126 MPH at Stoke Bank Near Grantham Lincolnshire setting the 'World Steam Record' - which still stands to this day.
In July 2013 as part of its '75th Anniversary' the NRM arranged for all six surviving A4 Gresley Pacifics to be re-united for the first time at York. Presented around the Museum' 'Roundhouse Turntable' in various LNER and BR Liveries were:
Dwight D Eisenhower BR No 60008 and Dominion of Canada LNER No 4489 both which travelled from America and Canada and underwent restoration at the NRM to bring them back to their original liveries, Bittern LNER 4464, Mallard LNER 4468, Sir Nigel Gresley BR 60007 and Union of South Africa BR 60009.
On 13th July 2013, before the Museum opened to the public, I was one of 50 'Lucky People' on an early morning photo - shoot.
Pictured left in LNER Garter Blue is 4489 Dominion of Canada, top right from right to left are in BR Green 60009 Union of South Africa, then in LNER Garter Blue 4464 Bittern, 4468 Mallard and 4489 Dominion of Canada. Bottom right is the actual Dynamometer Coach (Attached to Mallard) that recorded its record breaking run.
It was some spectacle and a great lasting memory.
LNER Gresley streamlined 4-6-2 No. 4498 'Sir Nigel Gresley' is seen here approaching Lincoln Central on the Sleaford line. Brush Type 4 D1935 [named 'Roger Hosking MA 1925-2013'] is doing the honours providing train heat at the back of the train :)
The loco was working 1Z70 Lincoln Christmas Express excursion from Ealing Broadway, to coincide with the Lincoln Christmas Market - unusually, the loco was turned out in drab black finish, as she would have appeared during the Second World War. A colourful collection of coaches, including a Pullman kitchen car, was in the rake of 11. The tour had been held up on the way, and was running 40 minutes late on arrival!
Note the rather impressive crowd that had amassed on Pelham Bridge to view the arrival :)
LNER Gresley 4-6-2 No. 4498 'Sir Nigel Gresley' was built by the London & North Eastern Railway in 1937. The locomotive was named after the company's then Chief Mechanical Engineer. In 1935 the LNER introduced the streamlined A4 Class locomotives to improve the speed of their trains and compete with the increased competition from road transport. Initially introduced to haul the new Silver Jubilee express between London and Newcastle, the class was an instant success, with 2509 Silver Link, setting a new British speed record of 112 mph on the first press run! In 1936 this was bettered by Silver Fox, another A4 Class Locomotive, before in 1938 a further member of the class, number 4468 Mallard, set an all-time world speed record for steam traction of 126 mph.
During its working life Sir Nigel Gresley was mainly allocated to King's Cross depot, often known as 'Top Shed' and worked King's Cross to York, Leeds, Newcastle & Edinburgh expresses. In the 1960s the locomotive moved to Scotland and hauled the Edinburgh to Aberdeen trains until withdrawal in 1966.
Thirteen years earlier, in 1959 the locomotive had set a post-war world speed record of 112 mph when working a special train from Doncaster to London, and as such was ear marked for preservation. The A4 Preservation Society, now a registered Charity, the Sir Nigel Gresley Locomotive Trust, successfully purchased Sir Nigel Gresley and moved the locomotive to Crewe for overhaul. 'Sir Nigel Gresley' has enjoyed periods of mainline activity since 1967. [Info courtesy of Steam Dreams]
See here for tour details:
www.railadvent.co.uk/events/steam-dreams-london-to-lincol...
and here for the timings: www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U64323/2022-12-02/...
You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/
Best viewed Original size.
Bulleid streamlined "West Country" class 7P5F 4-6-2 34039 "Boscastle" at Fareham with a Brighton to Salisbury (via Southampton Central) working - c.1958.
Built 1946 by the Southern Railway at Brighton Works, 34039 remained pretty much in original condition until January 1959 when it was rebuilt and its streamlined casing removed. Despite being almost a new locomotive after rebuilding, it survived in traffic only until May 1965.
© 2015 - 53A Models of Hull Collection. Scanned from the original 120 monochrome negative; photograph by the late James S Doubleday.
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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.
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.
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?
Basically, this is a shrouded MRS-1 (Military Road Switcher), designed / made by ALCO for the United States Army Transportation Corps in the 1950's. In the early part of the 1970's, all were deemed redundant for their purpose and most were scrapped, but several were saved for museums and short-lines across the USA. I based my design on Anthony Sava's MRS-1 that is used by the Texas State Railroad in real life. (buy the instructions here for his model: bonahoombuilds.com/product/alco-mrs1/ )
This Classic Space-based version is streamlined to match the other locomotives on the Lunar Railroad. It features two sliding axles for the center of the three-wheel trucks and a seven-stud wide cab.
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.)
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
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 ;-)
This locomotive operated between 1947 and 1970. The first five were built to a streamlined design by Clyde Engineering of Granville while the final 25 were built to the same design as 3820 without streamlining. They were of 4-6-2 (Pacific) wheel arrangement and with a tractive effort of 36273 pounds, were about two thirds of the way between a Great Western King and Castle class for general comparison. Once in service they operated top level passenger services in NSW and in later years, freight also. 3820 was steamed for specials after withdrawl in 1975 but then retired to the museum at Thirlmere. In this condition and with black paint and red lining it is the only remaining 38 class in the same condition as when it was withdrawn.
This summary has drawn on Wikipedia and other sources for its content with Thanks and acknowledgement.
All the different railroad companies (fictional or real) have various color schemes and styling, ranging from fully streamlined to semi-streamlined. I have nine railroads covered here from front to back:
Lego Land Railway (steam 4-6-4 number 8929)
Ohio Pacific (steam 4-8-2 number 2312)
Southern Pacific (steam 4-8-4 number 4460)
Brick Railway Systems (steam 4-8-2 number 6847)
Milwaukee St. Paul and Pacific (Bi-Polar electric E2)
Southern Railroad (diesel ALCO FA / FB two-unit set 7996)
Wabash Frisco & Pacific (diesel EMD F7 A / B two-unit set 7301)
Amtrak (electric GG1 loco 926 )
Aerotrain (diesel GM experimental prototype)
As a side note, all but the Bi-Polar electric, Ohio Central steamer and Amtrak GG1 loco are built in real bricks.
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.
The African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), also known as Cape penguin or South African penguin, is a species of penguin confined to southern African waters. It is the only penguin found in the Old World. Like all penguins, it is flightless, with a streamlined body and wings stiffened and flattened into flippers for a marine habitat. Adults weigh an average of 2.2–3.5 kg (4.9–7.7 lb) and are 60–70 cm (24–28 in) tall. The species has distinctive pink patches of skin above the eyes and a black facial mask. The body's upper parts are black and sharply delineated from the white underparts, which are spotted and marked with a black band.
The African penguin is a pursuit diver and feeds primarily on fish and squid. Once extremely numerous, the African penguin is now the rarest species of penguin, classified as critically endangered, with its population declining rapidly due to a combination of several threats, such as habitat loss, overfishing and climate change. It is a charismatic species and is popular with tourists. Other vernacular names of the species include black-footed penguin and jackass penguin, due to the species' loud, donkey-like noise[3] (although several related species of South American penguins produce the same sound). They can be found along the coast of South Africa and Namibia.
Taxonomy
The English naturalist George Edwards included an illustration and a description of the African penguin in the second volume of his A Natural History of Uncommon Birds in 1747. He used the English name "The Black-Footed Penguins". Edwards based his hand-coloured etching on two preserved specimens that had been brought to London. He suspected that they had been collected near the Cape of Good Hope.[4] In 1758, when the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the tenth edition, he placed the African penguin with the wandering albatross in the genus Diomedea. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Diomedea demersa and cited Edwards' work.[5] The African penguin is now placed with the banded penguins in the genus Spheniscus that was introduced in 1760 by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson.[6][7] The genus name Spheniscus is from Ancient Greek word σφήν (sphēn) meaning "wedge" and is a reference to the animal's thin, wedge-shaped flippers. The specific epithet demersus is Latin meaning "plunging" (from demergere meaning "to sink").[8]
Banded penguins are found mainly in the temperate Southern Hemisphere, with the Humboldt penguin and Magellanic penguin found in southern South America and the Galápagos penguin found in the Pacific Ocean near the equator. All are similar in shape, colour and behaviour.
Penguin colony at Betty's Bay
Description
African penguin diving in Siam Center, Bangkok, Thailand
African penguin skeleton at the Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US
African penguins grow to 60–70 cm (24–28 in) tall and weigh between 2.2–3.5 kg (4.9–7.7 lb).[9] The beak length of the African penguin varies, usually growing between 4.8–6.5 cm (1.9–2.6 in).[10] They have a black stripe and black spots on the chest, the pattern of which is unique to each penguin, like human fingerprints. The sweat glands above the eyes cool the birds' blood and as the temperature rises, increased blood flow causes the glands to get pinker.[11] This species exhibits slight sexual dimorphism; the males are slightly larger than the females and have longer beaks.[12] Juveniles do not possess the bold, delineated markings of the adult, but instead have dark upperparts that vary from greyish-blue to brown; the pale underparts lack both spots and the band. The beak is more pointed than that of the Humboldt penguin. The African penguin's colouring is a form of protective colouration known as countershading. The white undersides of the birds are difficult to spot by predators under the water and the penguins' black backs blend in with the water when viewed from above. African penguins possess supraorbital salt glands located above the eyes that allow them to excrete excess salt from ingesting seawater, an adaptation that helps maintain osmotic balance while foraging at sea.[13]
African penguins resemble and are related to the Humboldt, Magellanic and Galápagos penguins.[14] African penguins have a very recognisable appearance, with a thick band of black that is in the shape of an upside-down horseshoe. They have black feet and black spots that vary in size and shape between individuals. Magellanic penguins share a similar bar marking that often confuses the two; the Magellanic has a double bar on the throat and chest, whereas the African has a single bar. These penguins are sometimes called "jackass penguins", which comes from the loud braying noises they make.
Distribution and habitat
The African penguin is found on the southern and southwestern coast of Africa, living in colonies on 24 islands between Namibia and Algoa Bay, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa.[15] It is the only penguin species that breeds in Africa, and its presence gave name to the Penguin Islands.
Two adults with chicks at the Boulders Beach colony in South Africa
Two colonies were established by penguins in the 1980s on the mainland near Cape Town, namely Boulders Beach near Simon's Town and Stony Point in Betty's Bay. Mainland colonies likely became possible only in recent times due to the reduction of predator numbers, although the Betty's Bay colony has been attacked by leopards.[16][17] The only other mainland colony is in Namibia, but it is not known when it was established.
Boulders Beach is a tourist attraction due to the beach, swimming, and the penguins themselves.[18][19] The penguins will allow people to approach them as close as a meter.
Breeding populations of African penguins are being kept in numerous zoos worldwide. No colonies are known outside the southwestern coast of Africa, although vagrants (mostly juveniles) may occasionally be sighted beyond the normal range.
Population
Roughly 4 million African penguins existed at the beginning of the 19th century. Of the 1.5 million African penguins estimated in 1910, only some 10% remained at the end of the 20th century. African penguin populations, which breed in Namibia and South Africa, have declined by 95% since pre-industrial times.[20]
Today, breeding is largely restricted to 24 islands from Namibia to Algoa Bay, South Africa,[21] with the Boulders Beach colony being an exception to this rule. The total population fell to approximately 150,000–180,000 in 2000.[22][23] Of those, 56,000 belonged to the Dassen Island colony and 14,000 to the Robben Island colony.[24] The colony at Dyer Island in South Africa fell from 46,000 in the early 1970s to 3,000 in 2008.[25]
In 2008, 5,000 breeding pairs were estimated to live in Namibia.
In 2010, the total African penguin population was estimated at 55,000. At the rate of decline seen from 2000 to 2010, the African penguin was expected to be extinct in the wild by 2026.[26]
In 2012, about 18,700 breeding pairs were estimated to live in South Africa, with the majority on St. Croix Island in Algoa Bay.
Wikipedia
A year ago I blogged about the 25 sites that were on my Firefox bookmarks toolbar. These represented the 25 sites that I used the most in my day in day out online life.
I thought here now one year later I'd refresh this post showing which bookmarks were removed from my toolbar over the past year and which ones were added. I've also added comments on each link.
Links removed in the last year.
1. My Welcome Mat on Zooomr. The welcome mat on Zooomr was not providing me anything useful really. Instead I've streamlined my Zooomr links down to two, my Zooomr Social Stream and my Zooomr Zipline.
2. My Zooomr Sets. I had a lot of problems with my Zooomr sets so I stopped maintaining sets there and maintain them at Flickr now.
3. Magnolia. I stopped using Magnolia for bookmarks after some weird thing happened with the site and I could no longer add new bookmarks there.
4. My Magnolia Mini Marker. Same deal. Since I don't use Magnolia anymore I don't need this.
5. Google Docs. I just find that I don't really need to use word processors and spreadsheets much anymore. I use Zoho now instead of Google docs but I don't use it enough to give it toolbar real estate.
6. Twittersearch. Although I still post to Twitter occasionally I've largely stopped following it from twitter or using Twittersearch.
7. Involver. I was going to try and use Involver for my events, but it was a private beta thing that my friends couldn't get into without an invite and upcoming.org just seemed easier to use.
8. Statsaholic. I kind of gave up on Statsaholic after their Alexa data kept getting disrupted. I'm also much less interested in traffic stats on sites these days.
9. Newsgator Online. I switched my RSS reader to Google Reader.
10. Sitemeter. I dumped Sitemeter this year. Google Analytics gives me most of the same information without having to pay for it.
11. Zooomr Blog. Not much activity here. Most of Zooomr's updates go in the Zipline these days.
Links added in the last year.
1. Flickrleech. The best way to get a birds-eye view of a Flickr user's entire photostream and the best thing ever done with the Flickr API. Also the best way to search Flickr.
2. SmartSetr. The best way to manage your sets on Flickr.
3. Google Reader. Using it now as my RSS reader. Replaced Newsgator Online.
4. FriendFeed. The social networking aggregator. Definitely one of the best new sites in the past year.
5. Zooomr Zipline. My new landing page on Zooomr. A great place to network with other Zooomr photographers.
6. Pownce. I like Pownce a lot more than Twitter. Probably because the community feels smaller and less clichéd and photos are more prominently featured than on Twitter. I also love the mp3 sharing functionality in Pownce.
7. Hype Machine. Where I go to discover new music most on the web.
8. Google Maps. I'm creating a map of all of the places in the world that I want to photograph. This is a brand new project started last week so there are not many places on it yet. I hope to add hundreds of places in the next year though and do a blog post about this at some point in the future.
9. Reddit. Love to regularly review stories on Reddit.
10. Upcoming.org. I use this for my events site now.
11. Netflix Queue. Canceled my DirecTV and signed up for Netflix this past year. Absolutely love the service. Better programming for a lot less money. If you want to see what movies I'm watching you can add me as a friend on Netflix here.
12. Tiny URL. Sometimes big urls don't fit well with Twitter, Zooomr Zipline, etc. This site turns your large url into a tiny one.
13. Photography Voter. Like Digg for photography stories.
Links on both last year and this year.
1. Flickr Recent activity. The place where I go to see all of the activity on my photos on Flickr.
2. Zooomr Social Stream. The place where I go to see all of the activity on my photos on Zooomr
3. Twitter. Using it much less but still post directly there occasionally.
4. Facebook. Getting really bored with Facebook but still go there a few times a week. Mostly just to add new friends who've added me.
5. Google Analytics. Use this to track traffic stats and referral information for my blog.
6. DeleteMe Uncensored. Still a place that I hang out most on Flickr. Flickr has it marked as an adults only group so you have to join the group if you want to see it and you have to have your account enabled to see age 18+ content.
7. Thomashawk.com. My blog still gets a spot.
8. 30 Boxes. Still using 30 Boxes as my calendar. Like the version that they built for the iPhone this past year.
9. Techmeme. Still one of the best places to go on the internet for tech news.
10. Digg.com. Still a great place to find new stories.
11. Technorati Page for thomashawk.com. Still like to follow other bloggers who are linking to my blog.
12. and 13. Blogger and "Blog This" bookmarklet. Still using Blogger for publishing. I've thought about moving to WordPress many times in the past, but in the past year the Blogger service has gotten remarkably more robust and I decided to stick with Blogger for now.
What sites are on your toolbar? Are there sites that you just can't live without day in and day out. Any new ones I should be trying out?
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.
0315
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).
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.
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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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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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
A Summer day in Holland: mass tourism by bus at Schiphol Airport, 1935.
In the 1920s theories about aerodynamics began to develop. On both sides of the Atlantic designers started to experiment with streamlined shapes for vehicles. Besides exclusive cars buses and coaches became a welcome subject. They apply to see and to be seen.
Better aerodynamic results were not only created by sloping front parts and windscreens, also suggestive painting contributed to that idea.
Source: Filarski, Ruud, The Rise and Decline of Transport Systems, changes in historical context, Ministry of Transport and Public Works/Rijkswaterstaat, Rotterdam, 2004.
Original photographer and date unknown.
Amsterdam, Aug. 14, 2019.
© 2004/2019 Rijkswaterstaat/Sander Toonen, Rotterdam/Halfweg / All Rights Reserved
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.
SSR vintage locomotives, GM 10 and GM 27, running as train D273s are seen working through Callington, 54 km to the South of Adelaide, South Australia, on Friday 16th of February 2024.
The twin GMs worked the AK82 Inspection Train the day before to the Islington Railway Workshops, six kilometres north of Adelaide, and returned to Victoria light engine this morning.
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
A streamlined version of the previous network shows the connections among categories, subjects and types of sources.
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.
This (newly remodeled to 7-studs wide) New York Central Dreyfuss-style streamlined 4-6-4 is numbered 5448 and is modeled after a real, long-scrapped J-3a Hudson steam engine. The MOC was first built in 6-wide by me in 2024, and as some of you might be able to guess, this loco was inspired by pictures of Anthony Sava's original streamlined 6-wide Hudson locomotive from 2007... although no instructions were used to build this engine. See his original loco here: www.flickr.com/photos/savatheaggie/1338258406/in/album-72...
The loco also has matching streamlined passenger cars, but those are all from 2024 and have not been changed since then, so they aren't being shown off again.
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
For more of my photographs, see here
The modern looking streamlined Peugeot 402 series was presented at the 1935 Paris Motor Show. In the early 1930s revolutionary aerodynamic theories were applied for the first time to mass produced cars. Avant-garde cars like 1934 Tatra 77 and the 1934 Chrysler Airflow gained a lot of positive attention. The 402 was Peugeot's answer to its direct competitor the streamlined 1934 Citroën TA.
The 402 was developed by the Département Études Carrosseries, under supervision of Henri Thomas.
The Peugeot 02-series was also called Fuseau-Sochaux.
The 402 series replaced the predecessors 401 and 601 (from 1934-1935).
Many body variants were available.
The 402 B with an increased engine, followed in Summer 1938.
The sober dashboard was easy to convert into a RHD version.
Besides several Art Deco details, the headlamps placed behind the grille were very remarkable.
See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_402
2142 cc L4 petrol engine.
Performance: 60 bhp.
C. 1200 kg.
Production Peugeot 402 series: Sept. 1935-July 1942.
Production Peugeot 402 B Berline this version: Oct. 1938-June 1940.
Original first reg. number: June 30, 1936 (according to RDW, but that's not correct).
New Dutch pseudo-historical reg. number: April 20, 2009.
With current owner since June 22, 2024.
Seen in car museum Visscher Classique. It's a new car museum originated from a large car collection of director Henk Visscher, mixed with a lot of passion and ambition.
The collection focuses on the French brands that fall under the Stellantis group (formerly PSA).
More info: visscherclassique.nl/museum/
Buren, Visscher Classique Car Museum, Schuilheuvelstraat, Aug. 5, 2023.
© 2023 Sander Toonen Halfweg | All Rights Reserved
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
One of Singapore’s oldest residential estates, Tiong Bahru has become synonymous with trendy cafes and independent shops.
Architect: Alfred G Church 1936-1941 streamlined moderne
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)
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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The rear of the engine has a ladder and a red marker light. The circle tiles shall have the letters 'G', 'C', and 'R' on them standing for Gotham Central Railroad.
The Portland Art Museum is pleased to announce The Shape of Speed: Streamlined Automobiles and Motorcycles, 1930–1942, a special exhibition debuting at the Museum in Summer 2018. Featuring 19 rare streamlined automobiles and motorcycles, The Shape of Speed opens June 16 and will be on view through September 16, 2018.
The concept of streamlining has fascinated people for generations. Beginning in the 1930s and extending until the outbreak of the World War II, automotive designers embraced the challenge of styling and building truly streamlined cars that were fast and fuel-efficient. They were encouraged by the confluence of aircraft design with the sleek shapes of fast railroad locomotives; new advanced highways such as the Autobahns; and events like the 1939 New York City World’s Fair, which showcased futuristic design.
The Shape of Speed presents a select group of rare automobiles and motorcycles that demonstrate how auto designers translated the concept of aerodynamic efficiency into exciting machines that in many cases, looked as though they were moving while at rest.
The Museum will display 17 cars and two motorcycles—the best of that era’s streamlined offerings—from Europe and the United States. Engineering drawings and period photographs will show some of the aircraft, railroad, ship and yacht designs that influenced the automakers.
Featured designers and engineers include European streamlining pioneer Paul Jaray, along with Richard Buckminster Fuller, Norman Bel Geddes, Raymond Loewy, Harley J. Earl, Hermann Ahrens, Georges Paulin, Joseph Figoni, Dr. Wunibald Kamm, Otto Kuhler, Jean Bugatti, Hans Ledwinka, Gordon Buehrig, and others.
In contrast with the decades following World War II—when advanced aircraft and rocket designs propelled carmakers toward fanciful and impractical designs—the automobile designs in the pre-war period were more organic, emulating the classic teardrop shape thought, at that time, to be perfect for cheating the wind. The results were brought to life in cars with then-startling shapes that looked as though they were ready to be embraced and caressed. Even if they weren’t noticeably faster than their predecessors, they looked fast. In a few cases, the conservative public balked. Sales of well-known brands slipped, then recovered as consumers tentatively embraced and then accepted this brave new look.
The design influence of streamlining was felt far beyond automobile styling in this period. The school of architecture now known as Streamline Moderne had an effect on the shape of radios, appliances, transport trucks, and railroad locomotives, along with such disparate items as table flatware, water pitchers, toasters, pencil sharpeners, and cocktail shakers.
A few of the automotive marques featured in The Shape of Speed include Mercedes-Benz, who have restored one of the carmaker’s Stromlinienwagens (streamlined cars) from 1938, along with Bugatti, BMW, Alfa Romeo, Voisin, Talbot-Lago, Delahaye, Cord and Chrysler. In addition, The Shape of Speed includes two motorcycles: a radically streamlined Henderson KJ and a BMW concept R7 motorcycle that was developed in the mid-1930s, lost for decades in a missing crate, recovered in 2005, and completely restored.
The latest exhibition in the Portland Art Museum’s design series, The Shape of Speed is guest curated by Ken Gross, former director of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Gross previously curated the Museum’s 2011 exhibition The Allure of the Automobile, which enthralled visitors with its lavish presentation of automobiles as kinetic art—a form of rolling sculpture. With this new exhibition, the Museum opens the door to another fascinating exploration of automotive design.
“The Shape of Speed celebrates great design that moves us,” said Brian Ferriso, The Marilyn H. and Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. Director and Chief Curator of the Portland Art Museum. “During the Great Depression, the forward-leaning, beautiful designs of streamlined vehicles were aspirational, inspiring a sense of hope for the future. We look forward to bringing that excitement to Portland again.”
The Shape of Speed: Streamlined Automobiles and Motorcycles, 1930–1942 is accompanied by a range of related programs and events, as well as a catalogue. For more information and updates, please visit portlandartmuseum.org.
Organized by the Portland Art Museum. Guest curated by Ken Gross.
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.
Streamlined version's challenge page: ideas.lego.com/s/ca:c3839db98c4f41e9965931549161df4d
This is the original version of a LEGO vignette I created for an Ideas competition called "Exploring the Cosmos". The premise of the building challenge is to make futuristic space vehicles or bases with using 150-250 pieces total. I built this project, shot the photo, and then afterwards realized I went well over the 250 part limit. I ended up streamlining the project significantly by removing some of the detail of the ship, removing the three small meteors surrounding the ship, and reduced the size of the exploding meteor. This brought the total count to 250 pieces exactly. Next I retook the streamlined version's photos and submitted it to the competition. Hence the version seen in the challenge page looks a bit different than the image seen here.
The original working name of the project was the "Asteroid Authority", clearly inspired by the classic Atari game Asteroids. Whether I win the contest or not, I at least deserve some credit for the awesome name "Meteor Watchdog!"
LMS streamlined Coronation Class 4-6-2 "Duchess of Hamilton" is seen inside National Railway Museum the at York.
The EMD F-Class diesel-powered streamlined train is depicted passing through Californian orange groves. The simultaneous introduction of diesel traction and the introduction of air-conditioned coaches transformed long-distance rail travel at the end of the 1930s. After World War 2, the leading US railroads invested heavily in new equipment. But the increasingly popularity of domestic air travel, more widespread car ownership and finally the inauguration of the nationwide interstate road network proved siphoned passenger business away from the railroads from the 1950s. What remains of the US long-distance passenger network is in the hands of the federally-funded Amtrak organisation.