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EMD E5 9912A ("Silver Meteor") drawn by Charles Schultz for the Snoopy Railroad Trains Coloring Book from 1980.
#e5#cb&q 9912a#silver meteor#cb&q#chicago burlington & quincy#charles schultz#snoopy#zephyrs#real train stuff#kinda#9912a#streamliners
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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.
#Nebraska Zephyr#CB&Q#Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad#trains#streamliners#1940s#1950s#vintage#US rail
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Tenth anniversary of the Pioneer Zephyr. First diesel streamline train in America - 1944.
#vintage illustration#railroads#travel by train#vintage travel#th pioneer zephyr#streamliners#burlington route
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Well THIS looks familiar.
Episode 52 Part 1 First < Previous > Next Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, Season 5 Ep 41, Ep 42, Ep 43, Ep 44 Ep 45, Ep 46, Ep 47, Ep 48, Intermission, Ep 49, Ep 50, Ep 51
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#originally I wanted everyone to be wearing clothes inspired by ANY of the heroes#Sabrina as Pegasus or Marc as Caprikid that sorta thing#but keeping track of all the specific shades of gray over so many characters would've been an absolute headache#chat noir and marigold use the same 'gray' colors so this was more streamlined#scarlet lady#scarlet lady au#scarlet lady comic#heroes' day part 1#catalyst#episode 52 part 1#sl fashion#also yeah Juleka's is based off Maotif not Chat Noir but they use the same 'gray' so it's a sneaky little thing for me
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Nine Years Ago—Confluence of Celebrity Locomotives!
At the end of May 2014, fellow photographer Pat Yough and I took Amtrak to Salisbury, North Carolina to partake in the epic gathering of celebrity locomotives described as ‘Streamliners at Spencer.’ This was an extremely well organized and enjoyable event. Many of our fellow photographers were on site. Over the coming days, I exposed numerous photos of beautiful locomotives. Our first full…
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Trying out a new line style by making a hatzegopteryx! I cant believe I haven't made an azhdarchid yet. Such fun shaped animals.
#trying to streamline my reference sheet process as well#hatzegopteryx#azhdarchid#pterosaur#art#he is vaguely gannet based
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Designs by Norman Bel Geddes (1930s)
#norman bel geddes#industrial design#retro futurism#streamline moderne#art deco#concept art#futurama exhibition#concept cars#airliner no. 4#streamlined whale ocean liner#1939 new york world's fair#1930s
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casual clothes! (+ my twitter)
#my art#lucifer morningstar#radioapple#hazbin hotel fanart#hazbin alastor#love me some devil and angel dynamics#similar to their regular clothes but i wanted it to be more streamlined#i feel like alastor would wear loafers
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The Way of The Zephyrs 1934-1971. by Terry Spirek
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The era of the silver steeds that pulled the Burlington's commuter and cross country passenger train known as the Zephyrs.
#pioneer zephyr#cb&q#cb&q 9900#chicago burlington & quincy#zephyrs#streamliners#vehicles with signs#real train stuff
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"Green Train", England
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PRR T1 class Duplex, prototypes
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Union Pacific Railroad’s “City of Los Angeles” streamliner.
#vintage advertising#vintage ill#railroad#vintage travel#union pacific#union pacific railroad#streamliners#city of los angeles
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a deep sea danny for mermay~
i got inspired by @meowmeowmeowmeow4x's lovely fic, Dark Blue Moon and the Suffering Sun! I don't think my depiction of danny is completely accurate to the story, but i looooved the description of his transparent skin with visible bones and organs and wanted to give it a shot!
#danny phantom#danny fenton#dpxdc#pixel art#animation#mermay#mermaid#merman#tbh im guessing dannys supposed to look more like an orca in the fic#cuz black n white skin and a more streamlined bodytype for fast swimming#but i got possessed by a combination of “oooogh long tail danny my beloved” and “googling creepy deep sea creatures for 5 hours"#i was gonna draw damian peeking out from behind him but i got tired sdlfkhsdlfkhslrhk#bones tw#organs tw??? i dont know how to tag this sorry
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Thomas Jefferson High School (1935) in Los Angeles, CA, USA, by Stiles Oliver Clements. Photo by Julius Shulman.
#1930s#streamline moderne#modernism#modernist#architecture#usa#architektur#los angeles#stiles oliver clements#julius shulman
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