#carbody

[tazweedapp]

Purchasing an automobile is one of the most significant decisions you will ever make. Every driver has different priorities, whether it is related to the safety features or the appearance of the vehicle. We at Tazweed are well aware that a car buyer's preferences may differ from another's. But, you may find that choosing between an SUV and a hatchback is simpler if you are aware of their differences. This article is intended for those who are somewhat perplexed by the distinctions between car body designs.

[frenchcurious]

MG PB Airline Coupe by Carbodies 1935. - source Amazing Classic Cars.

[englishcarssince1946]

1984 Carbodies FX4R Taxicab

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www.tumblr.com/germancarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/frenchcarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/englishcarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/italiancarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/japanesecarssince1947 & www.tumblr.com/uscarssince1935

[catenary-chad]

The more I think about Electra specifically being a locomotive vs power car or EMU the more I dial in on a lot of my more contrarian physical preferences. It’s a very important distinction socially, especially as separate locomotives and cars not in permanent trainsets become gradually rarer (especially in Europe). I went over it in my train social divisions post, but power cars almost always keep to their trainset, EMUs are self-powered and tend to be separate from the coach/engine divide unless they really suck at self-propulsion and end up unpowered coaches (like the Metroliners). Locomotives are fairly distinct in that they’re more flexible and can bounce around between duties, and virtually all freight is loco-hauled so there’s a major chance of crossing over later in life even if you are originally on passenger duty.

but basically by being a separate locomotive Electra would probably be physically pretty small (both height and length), we’re talking 50-65 feet long vs 80ish foot coaches and MUs and 70ish foot Greaseball, and depending on model, several inches to a foot shorter than Greaseball vertically (as engines). The early carbody engines Greaseball is based on were… infamously NOT very strong as individual units, especially compared to contemporary electric engines, it actually weirdly makes sense for Electra to be much beefier than him. Strength is just… not very relevant in a race pulling only one car and I think Electra just doesn’t care and Greaseball just leans back on old propaganda/perceptions of diesel power. tbh I have zero interest in modernizing Greaseball into something newer, larger, and more fitting to Pumping Iron because I just think being an EMD E9 is compelling and nearly timeless since they were used on corporate trains for so long (including UP’s until a few years ago). I just think it’s fascinating and fitting that he’d try and gaslight people into “diesel stronk because it go brrrr” messaging despite being the epitome of underpowered early diesel locos (this was a problem for several decades due to tech limits).

[railfangxy]

Land Sharks...Or Land Vessels

You've likely heard the T1's referred to as "Sharknoses" or more likely you've heard that name applied to a series of Baldwin Diesels.

The shape is very obviously inspired by that of the PRR's famous duplex, but the Sharknose wasn't actually a standard body in Baldwin's catalog until the RF-16 , or BF16 as the Pennsy called them

With the exception of the Centipedes, all the Baldwin Cabs on the PRR were Sharks. They had the only DR-4-4-1500's as Sharknoses, and the only such "DR-6" units as well. Class BF15's were basically identical to the later BF16's

And there were also the BF16z, depowered versions of the longer "DR-6" series, or BP20. Incidentally, this variant was mechanically exclusive to the PRR as well, using a pair of Straight-6 supercharged engines instead of Straight-8 naturally aspirated.

Contrary to popular belief, the styling applied to the Badlwin Sharknose diesels is not a product of Raymond Loewy. A seperate firm developed this design, clearly taking inspiration from the production T1's, which were modified to be easier to build.

As for the prototypes? Well there's a Sharknose that bears a resemblance, but the Graham Spirit of Motion line didn't really pick up the nickname at first. Plus there were other marks like Pontiacs and Lincolns which had a similar style

A tad fitting considering the T1's have most of their equipment under the "front hood" compared to most steam locomotives.

But the long angled prow, and the portholes, are more reminiscent of an ocean liner. Perhaps a dreadnought as a Wilkes-Barre newspaper described.

Now while there's a passing resemblance to the Baldwin Cabs, the styling cues of the prototype T1's can be traced more directly to another streamlined diesel. One which is even more of an ocean vessel on rails

The Fairbanks Morse Erie-Builts

The carbody design was from Loewy himself, with a similarly striking naval prow or "boat nose" compared to the swept back "shovelnose." Their prime movers are also naval in design, opposed-piston units that could output 2,000 horsepower individually, where nearly ever other -axle cab unit (including Baldwins Sharks) needed two prime movers. Not too dissimilar to how the T1's attain substantial horsepower with smaller fireboxes and boilers than their contemporaries.

Unusually the Eries were conceived for dual-service, and the largest order to the PRR were freight units, class FF20. Several would be ungraded for passenger work, but I don't believe the PRR retired any FP20's.

[les-belles-mecaniques]

1931 Invicta S Type by Carbodies

[middleland]

6000 horses by Jackson Hayes25

Via Flickr:

CSX B631 rolls south along the Great Miami River in West Middletown, Ohio. A near consecutive set of UP AC6000 carbodies caused no stir among the horses in the trackside barn.     

[asterisk-666666]

whenever I see midcentury carbody locomotives I think about what a pain they are to work with vs hood units. Sure they’re pretty and iconic but yeesh those tiny vertical ladders in and that awful visibility.

[shellbody2024]

red carbody

[elegant-7-d-mat]

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[lost-little-fawn]

mommy issues

mother is a pale clouded glass sitting on a windowsill sunheated and spoilt in my toddler hands, so thirsty i never noticed all the mold. until i vomited it  through my fingers, all over my winnie the pooh blanket.

i know that isnt true. i know there was something there.�� a warmth, a safety. distant, but there. i just dont  remember it. my mind was concise and desperate in the art of forgetting. a wild animal avoiding a  predator. and so now a gentle, empty valley lies in my recollections, roiling with soft grass and foliage. 

the sinkholes are starting to become more common.  i, myself, am a sinkhole, i think. or at least sinking.  cresting the waves and dipping under them,  heavy like a rock, silent. most children don't fight when they drown. one second they're there, the next,  an absence. a watery grave. i long not to make a fuss. i long to welcome the siren song pulling me down. 

i hold onto the things from my childhood because that's a much safer way to remember. the texture and color and weight are familiar, more familiar than my fathers face, more familiar than my own. they comfort me, reaching threadbare hands through time.  something that cannot think cannot disappoint you. 

my mother has always been a lightning storm.  pablo neruda's desert, "shivering in its solitudes." my solitude, my chubby fist in her fingers, gripped so tight it felt like a breaking. i always knew she was more fragile than me, less concrete. wispwaif.  my whole life was a game of chicken,  begging for my needs without having needs,  without taking up space, without taking her space.  screaming for help without making a single sound. 

she never once helped me across the street.  i crossed like a voyage, praying the headlights were moths leading me home. praying theyd stop for me. strangers stared at me across pavement.  shooed me away like a stray dog. sometimes  i wish they’d crawled out of their metal framework carbodies and ask me to come home with them, take me to the pound.

i ate in secretive bursts, my stomach a monster,  howling in its need. the wrapper sounds striking base fear in my heart, making me freeze, rabbitlike. twitchy.  my own home is still a battleground of her voice. i will always question if my own hunger is worth obeying. 

i never knew who i would become, never had any thoughts about what would happen next. only stuffing my face into the ground like an ostrich and waiting for the storm to stop. it only evolved, darker and electricity charged. im left thinking, staring, confused by a world i never expected to survive.  it’s angrier than i expected, and hungrier. im carving out my place in it with my nails and teeth.

[unshrinkingviolets]

The links should work correctly now (I hope).

If they don't, here's some new ones

SHAY: https://www.shaylocomotives.com/shayclass.htm

CLIMAX: http://gearedsteam.com/climax/climax.htm

ALSO, just because, here's an image from the gearedsteam.com page of images of Shays

The New York Central rostered Shays until at least the 1940s, and most or all of them had fully enclosed cabs/shrouds/carbodies. Some of them worked on the West Side Line in New York City (a freight line that ran down the middle of the street), and were transferred to other parts of the railroad when that line was electrified.

Steamy Power Locomotive 🚂

[frenchcurious]

MG PB Airline Coupe 1935 by Carbodies. - source Amazing Classic Cars.

[catenary-chad]

It is funny being very much aligned with “heavy machinery enthusiasts” and not at all an actual theater kid in this fandom. I don’t have terribly strong opinions on stuff like singing and choreography beyond “this is more/less entertaining than x” and I’m weird about acting in that I take even “bad acting” at face value and will just treat that character as being insincere or unstable. I can even be weirdly enthralled by it and wildly extrapolate from it, it’s happened with other media.

Meanwhile I’ll get pissed at stuff like “electric train cheating vs steam going uphill” and “midcentury carbody engine that can actually go backwards” because it’s blatantly wrong in train terms.

[mexicain-sans-frontiers-v2]

I wonder what the next carbody trend will be? Aside from adding like 30 goddamn angles to every fender.

crossovers used to be cool until they became so predominate and now it’s just like the fortnitetification of media. yay