General Motors EMD ad
featuring Milwaukee road diesel-electric loco
1945
via x-ray delta one @ Flickr
Showing posts with label US. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US. Show all posts
Friday, June 28, 2013
Monday, June 17, 2013
Monday, June 10, 2013
Streamlined and Diesel-Powered
Burlington Zephyr luggage label
The Zephyr was a diesel-powered articulated train, built by the Budd Company in 1934 for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. The train featured extensive use of stainless steel, and was meant as a promotional tool to advertise passenger rail service in the United States. The construction included innovations such as shotwelding (a specialized type of spot welding) to join the stainless steel, and articulation to reduce its weight.
On May 26, 1934, it set a speed record for travel between Denver, Colorado, and Chicago, Illinois, when it made a 1,015-mile (1,633 km) non-stop "Dawn-to-Dusk" dash in 13 hours 5 minutes at an average speed of 77 mph (124 km/h). For one section of the run it reached a speed of 112.5 mph (181 km/h), just short of the then US land speed record of 115 mph (185 km/h). The historic dash inspired a 1934 film and the train's nickname, "The Silver Streak".
On May 26, 1934, it set a speed record for travel between Denver, Colorado, and Chicago, Illinois, when it made a 1,015-mile (1,633 km) non-stop "Dawn-to-Dusk" dash in 13 hours 5 minutes at an average speed of 77 mph (124 km/h). For one section of the run it reached a speed of 112.5 mph (181 km/h), just short of the then US land speed record of 115 mph (185 km/h). The historic dash inspired a 1934 film and the train's nickname, "The Silver Streak".
Info: Wikipedia
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Open for Business
Built by Vega, the Lockheed Ventura was a replacement for the Hudson bomber
Image scanned and restored by Paul Malon @ Flickr
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
Deco Liner
FTC building artwork
Aluminum entrance grilles, Constitution Avenue elevation,
Federal Trade Commission building, Washington DC.
Designed by William McVey, 1938
Photo by m2msm @ Flickr
Friday, May 3, 2013
Healthy Atmosphere
Gigantic buildings connected by wide, suspended roadways on which traffic will speed at unheard of rates... Helicopter planes will take the place of the ground taxi... Many persons will live in the healthy atmosphere of the building tops...
1939
via x-ray delta one @ Flickr
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Weems Watch
In 1927 Philip Van Horn Weems, a U.S. Navy officer, devised a watch with a settable second hand that could be
easily corrected to the second using radio time signals. That made it
more useful for air navigation than even precision maritime chronometers
and was the beginning of the aviator's "hack" watch. Longines produced a number of 'Weems Watch' variantions in 1920s-1940s (plus later limited editions, incl. present-day Heritage series).
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
All-Steel Streamliner
International Delivery Van ad
(ft. the Magic Door!)
1940
Scanned and retouched by Paul Malon @ Flickr
Saturday, February 2, 2013
BB-56
USS Washington, a 35,000-ton North Carolina class battleship, was built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania.
She commissioned in May 1941 and was in the Atlantic during "close to war" and wartime operations for more than a year. From April into July 1942 Washington worked with the British Home Fleet in the North Atlantic.
She was then overhauled and sent to the South Pacific, where, in September, she joined U.S. forces engaged in the Guadalcanal Campaign. On 14-15 November 1942, she was flagship of Rear Admiral Willis A. Lee in the last part of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. During that night action, her sixteen-inch guns fatally damaged the Japanese battleship Kirishima.
Washington worked in the South and Central Pacific into 1944. She took part in the invasions of the Gilbert Islands in November 1943 and the Marshalls early in the new year. On 1 February 1944, during the latter operation, she crushed her bow in a collision with the battleship USS Indiana (BB-58). Following repairs, Washington rejoined the fleet in time to participate in the Marianas invasion in June 1944, and in the resulting Battle of the Philippine Sea.
During the next year, Washington took part in operations to capture the Palaus, Leyte, Luzon, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, as well as supporting the fast carriers on their raids throughout the Western Pacific. She was undergoing overhaul during the last two months of the Pacific War and, in October 1945, steamed through the Panama Canal to the Atlantic. Her final active duty was to transport veteran servicemen home from Europe. USS Washington was placed out of commission in June 1947 and was in "mothballs" from then until May 1961, when she was sold for scrapping.
Info: Naval Historical Center
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