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A few of my favourite steam-age railway posters.
Really nice impression
Express Is All-Weather Service by paul.malon on Flickr.
I love the old ads. Because of my this weeks train focus one with a train..
Seems the Pennsy were REALLY obsessed with beating the Twentieth Century Limited along the Broadway…
…. only to end up merged in the 70’s.
1936: Raymond Loewy with his design for the Pennsylvania Railroad’s S1 steam locomotive.
Steam and stream… line. That is interbellum technology on rails.
1935 New Haven Comet
That is a contrast to the well known steam trains. But in the 1930s streamlining was a issue.
Another giant steam locomotive from Germany. It is a Borsig express train from the 03 series. This one built in 1933 with 1980 horsepower, nearly 24 meter length and a top speed of 130 km/h.
Edinburgh Scotland 1938
Photo: Willem van de Poll
Sir Topham Hatt’s pre-Fat controller days with LNER.
I just blogged pre- and post interbellum locomotives. Now one within “my” timeframe…
Remarkable steam locomotive showing its teeth going through flood caused by heaviest rain of the season
Boston, 1915, photo by Leslie Jones.
Bet you can’t do THAT with a diesel locomotive!