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More than just a review of streamlined steam locomotives in North America, this lal new book examines the metamorphosis of the steam locomotive as passenger trains evolved from the traditional heavyweight limieds of the 1920s to the sleek streamlines of the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. Famous Stream-Liners, including the NYC's 1938 20th Century Limited and PRR's Broadway Limited, the Milwaukee Road's Hiawathas, B&O's Cincinnatian, Southern Pacific's Daylights, and Reading's vest-poker Crusader, are but some of the trains detailed from a motive-power perspective, as are the more home-grown locomotive strealining effforts undertaken by roads such as Fisco, Louisville & Nashville, Southern, Chesapeake & Ohio, Santa Fe, Union Pacific, Burlington and many others across the US and Canada. Streamliners pulled by conventional steam locomotives are also represented.… (plus d'informations)
alco261: Steamliners are just one aspect of the art deco movement. The book The Streamlined Decade puts Steamliners in the context of that period of time and Steamliners gives the reader of The Streamlined Decade a better understanding of one aspect of the art deco movement.… (plus d'informations)
alco261: Kuhler was the designer of many of the famous steamliners - Milwaukee Road's Hiawatha, Lehigh Valley's John Wilkes,etc.
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The Steamliners is a well-illustrated technical and general history of the impact of the art deco movement on railroad motive power. The introductory chapter “Winds of Change” gives a concise overview of the growth of the art deco movement with respect to all forms of industrial design and architecture and it provides a brief introduction to the principle actors in that movement whose designs would provide visually stunning head end power to many of the premier passenger trains on many of the major U.S. railroads in the 1930’s.
The second chapter covers the early efforts at streamlined steam engines (the NYC Commodore Vanderbilt of 1934, the NYC Mercury of 1935 and the Milwaukee Road’s Hiawatha and others.), the reaction of the public to these trains, and the ascendancy of the two styles of streamlining steam – the shroud and the “torpedo in the cradle”. Chapter three describes the spread of the streamlining movement to other railroads across the U.S. and the emergence of “streamstyling” – essentially a combination of paint and minimal sheet metal shrouding – which gave a visual impression of streamlining while recognizing the need for ease of access to steam locomotive components for maintenance and repair.
The fourth chapter traces the decline and end of the movement and the fifth chapter is an overview of streamlining efforts in Canada. The last chapter is a collection of painting and color photos of some of the more prominent U.S. streamlined steam locomotives. In addition to being a pleasant read for anyone interested in railroad history I think the book would also appeal to anyone interested in the history and influence of the art deco movement. (Text Length - 155 pages, Total Length - 156 pages.) (Book Dimensions inches LxWxH - 8.75 x .625 x 11.25) ( )
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To a quartet of Clarkson classmates - Doug Fear, Greg Roack, Renate Schnobel, and Dave Kerr - for pointing the way so long ago to Mum and Dad, for their unfailing encouragement and to Jenn, Graeme, and Russell, for sharing the journey
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The period between the First and Second World Wars, remembered for its political and economic upheavals in Europe and America, left an equally tumultuous legacy in the fields of architecture and design.
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So seductive was the allure of streamlining to American railroads in the early 1930's that, but for a late change of plan dictated by economics, the first streamlined steam locomotives in North America would have been used not in high-profile passenger service, but at the head of fast freight trains. Beginning in 1934, the American Locomotive Company (Alco) devoted much of its advertising space in Railway Age and other trade publications to promote its willingness to design and build streamlined steam locomotives. The New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad (the 'Nickel Plate Road'), with the benefit of access to its own considerable design and engineering resources in the form of the Advisory Mechanical Comittee, had placed an order with Alco for the construction of ten 2-8-4 Berkshire locomotives. Intended to revitalize the Nickel Plate's ability to compete for time-sensitive freight with the largely parallel New York Central, an eventual 80 AMC-design Berkshires would accomplish this and more as they made "Nickel Plate" synonymous with "High Speed Service." None, however, would bear the torpedo streamlining proposed for the first order.
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More than just a review of streamlined steam locomotives in North America, this lal new book examines the metamorphosis of the steam locomotive as passenger trains evolved from the traditional heavyweight limieds of the 1920s to the sleek streamlines of the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. Famous Stream-Liners, including the NYC's 1938 20th Century Limited and PRR's Broadway Limited, the Milwaukee Road's Hiawathas, B&O's Cincinnatian, Southern Pacific's Daylights, and Reading's vest-poker Crusader, are but some of the trains detailed from a motive-power perspective, as are the more home-grown locomotive strealining effforts undertaken by roads such as Fisco, Louisville & Nashville, Southern, Chesapeake & Ohio, Santa Fe, Union Pacific, Burlington and many others across the US and Canada. Streamliners pulled by conventional steam locomotives are also represented.
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The second chapter covers the early efforts at streamlined steam engines (the NYC Commodore Vanderbilt of 1934, the NYC Mercury of 1935 and the Milwaukee Road’s Hiawatha and others.), the reaction of the public to these trains, and the ascendancy of the two styles of streamlining steam – the shroud and the “torpedo in the cradle”. Chapter three describes the spread of the streamlining movement to other railroads across the U.S. and the emergence of “streamstyling” – essentially a combination of paint and minimal sheet metal shrouding – which gave a visual impression of streamlining while recognizing the need for ease of access to steam locomotive components for maintenance and repair.
The fourth chapter traces the decline and end of the movement and the fifth chapter is an overview of streamlining efforts in Canada. The last chapter is a collection of painting and color photos of some of the more prominent U.S. streamlined steam locomotives. In addition to being a pleasant read for anyone interested in railroad history I think the book would also appeal to anyone interested in the history and influence of the art deco movement. (Text Length - 155 pages, Total Length - 156 pages.) (Book Dimensions inches LxWxH - 8.75 x .625 x 11.25) ( )