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Streamliners

Locomotives and Trains in the Age of Speed and Style


  • Quayside (Quarto)
  • Voyageur Press
  • by Brian Solomon
In the 1930s, streamlined styling was applied to everything from kitchen appliances to farm tractors as it captured the American imagination. Keen to regain passenger traffic lost to automobiles and expanding roadways, railroads hired industrial-design giants like Raymond Loewy, Otto Kuhler, Henry Dreyfuss, and Brooks Stevens to produce sleek, futuristic shrouds for locomotives.

ISBN 9780760347478 | E | HB
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Publisher Quayside (Quarto)
ISBN 9780760347478
Author(s) Brian Solomon
Publication date October 2015
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 286 x 222 mm
Pages 208
Language(s) Eng. ed.
Exhibition Voyageur Press
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In the 1930s, streamlined styling was applied to everything from kitchen appliances to farm tractors as it captured the American imagination. Keen to regain passenger traffic lost to automobiles and expanding roadways, railroads hired industrial-design giants like Raymond Loewy, Otto Kuhler, Henry Dreyfuss, and Brooks Stevens to produce sleek, futuristic shrouds for locomotives. These streamlined locomotives and trains became the most iconic in American history. Even today, classic designs like stainless-steel Zephyrs, shrouded Hudsons, and EMD E-units remain the popular conception of what a locomotive "looks like."