#carbody

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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

[alightinthelantern]

The 1956 Chrysler Norseman was a concept car designed by Chrysler stylists and built overseas in Italy by Carrozzeria Ghia, a coachbuilding (carbody building) firm who famously did the styling for the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia models. Intended for the 1957 circuit, the car was completed in 1956 and sent from Italy to America on the Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria in July.

The car was a four-seat fastback coupe with hidden headlights and a cantilevered roof supported only at its rear-end, allowing for an all-glass front windshield with no metal supports. The car was state-of-the-art, and it’s unknown how many of its daring concepts would have made it into production models, as the car never entered production. On the evening of July 25, amid heavy fog, the Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish ocean liner Stockholm fifty miles south of Nantucket Island, and sank late the next morning. Forty-six people were killed in the initial collision when the Stockholm’s bow pierced the Andrea Doria’s side, but as the ship stayed afloat for eleven hours after the collision and many ships arrived to take on survivors, the remaining 1,660 passengers and crew were evacuated safely, in what became known as one of the greatest rescue operations of the 20th century. With photographers and television crews in airplanes on hand to watch the final moments, the Andrea Doria slipped beneath the waves at 11:00 AM. The Chrysler Norseman, located deep in the Andrea Doria’s garage, was lost as well, and never recovered.

Although it’s tempting to mourn the loss of such a gorgeous and daring car, I think that the daring concept elements which give the car some of its charm would have been toned down in production. A similar car from 1956, the Mercury XM-Turnpike Cruiser, was a radical car in its concept, with radical styling and glass roof panels above the doors that opened vertically like gullwing doors to allow for easier entrance and exit from the car’s low roof. These elements were toned down in production, with the glass panels replaced by a plain hardbody roof and the styling simplified on the carbody. Doubtless the same would have happened the the Chrysler Norseman had it entered production.

[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.     

[buff-electra-truther]

I think canon criminally underuses the fact that Greaseball’s replica basis (midcentury carbody locos) are almost incapable of going backwards due to lack of visibility and most of the Nationals aren’t any better since most of them would have another power car on the end of the train irl. Any kind of switcher would clean house in a backwards race against that field and it’s a convenient way to have Rusty win legitimately.

[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.

[frenchcurious]

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

[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 🚂

[alightinthelantern]

Parlor-Observation car "Juno" on the Nebraska Zephyr, a daytime passenger train operated daily by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) between Chicago, Illinois and Lincoln, Nebraska. Beginning operation in 1947, the train was typical of streamlined trains of the postwar period in that its carbodies were built of stainless steel and featured an all-silver exterior, the trademark of the Budd Company, but it was also notable in that it continued the CB&Q's unusual tradition, which began in the 1930s, of articulated, unified trainsets, with all passenger cars in each consist sharing bogies (wheel-trucks) and permanently coupled together.

The Nebraska Zephyr operated once-daily in each direction, with Westbound #11 departing Chicago at 12:45 PM and arriving in Lincoln at 10:30 PM, while Eastbound #12 departed Lincoln at 11:00 AM and arrived in Chicago at 8:45 PM. The 551-mile (887 km) trip took 9 hours and 45 minutes, and its average speed was 56 miles per hour (90 km/h) including stops. Service utilized two trainsets which each operated one direction on day and the opposite direction the next. One trainset's cars bore the names of Roman female gods, and was nicknamed "the train of the goddesses" (Venus, Vesta, Minerva, Psyche, Ceres, Diana, and Juno), while the other trainset's cars were named for male Roman gods, and was nicknamed "the train of the gods" (Apollo, Mars, Neptune, Cupid, Vulcan, Mercury, and Jupiter). The trainsets were in fact built by the Budd Company back in 1936 as the second pair of Twin Zephyrs, for CB&Q service between Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, making them some of the first stainless-steel trainsets built by Budd, and as such they initially bore the same style of locomotive as the other CB&Q Zephyrs from the 1930s, of a smooth, semicircular front curving seamlessly into the roofline at its top, but these locomotives were later replaced with the stainless-steel-bodied, shovel-nosed diesel locomotives of the 1950s which all the CB&Q's Zephyr trains later received.

Each of the Nebraska Zephyr's two trainsets consisted of several coaches and parlor cars, a coach-dinette, dining car, cocktail lounge, and parlor-observation car. The parlor-observation car on "the train of the gods" was named Jupiter, while its goddess counterpart was named Juno. The locomotives were named Pegasus (CB&Q #9904) and Zephyrus (CB&Q #9905). The trains were generously appointed and provided comfortable travel throughout the 1940s and '50s, and the high level of service was maintained until 1963, when the cocktail lounges were removed in favor of additional seating. In 1966 the dining cars were rebuilt as "cafeteria cars" with vending machines for additional cost-cutting. The aging trainsets were retired from service entirely in 1968, although CB&Q continued to operate the Nebraska Zephyr train with other rolling stock until 1971, when the newly-birthed Amtrak took over all remaining passenger rail service in the US.

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