That is some wild styling. Thanks for posting the photo.
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An incredibly rare shot, especially in color! Thanks for sharing!
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| Posted by FSWood on January 21, 2013 | |
Streamlined steam is always welcome.
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| Posted by on January 21, 2013 | |
It was actually the only 4-6-2 (or any other engine) fully streamlined on the Southern (a few engines got some fancy skirts, but not full streamlining). The engine was dolled up in 1941 for the Washington-New Orleans "Tennessean." The 1380 handled the Washington-Monroe, VA r/t on numbers 45 and 46. Out of work on this run by 1948, it ended up working out of Atlanta later in its career---just another Ps-4 by then.
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| Posted by on January 21, 2013 | |
What an Art Deco beauty! Thanks for sharing.
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A truly great shot. Wonderful to see. Many thanks.
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There is something about streamlined locomotives that I love and this is a truly beautiful example. My references do not mention any streamlining being done by Southern, but I’m glad they did. The idea of the famous green and gold colors came from a trip by Southern’s president Fairfax Harrison to London in 1925 and seeing the London & North Eastern Railway there. The color scheme started with the delivery of the 1926 group of Southern’s Ps-4’s which became an immediate success and was applied shortly to all their passenger locomotives.
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| Posted by FSWood on January 21, 2013 | |
I'd read long time back in several places that it was the UK Southern Railway's green that inspired him to use the green on US Southern Railway.
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To me this is a great shot, because it teach's me something I had no idea existed. I love photos like this.
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great photo! reminds me of the Lehigh Valleys' Black Diamond
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When I first seen this photo I had never seen a Southern Railway Streamlined steam locomotive. Does anyone know the history of this locomotive. Meaning, was this just a test locomotive to pull the Crescent maybe? Was it ever used at all. Thanks for posting it Mr. Nicks!!
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| Posted by on January 24, 2013 | |
Interesting but ugly. No wonder the south lost the war.....
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| Posted by pjflstc on January 24, 2013 | |
Is it me or does it look similair to N&W's #611? Very similiar nosework and lines. They are beautiful locomotives.
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The comment about the South losing The War of Northern Aggression is totally not the issue with the photo above. Besides, the person that made the comment was afraid to post thier user name. Kinda of funny that some is brave to post something and then scared to take credit. Anyway, the design is unusual for the Southern Railway. However I believe that New York Central, Milwaukee Road, and others, used a design very similar and they wer considered amazing. Also kinda funny how two south based railroads bought the famous Yankee railroads. Something to think about. So...did the south really lose the war or just play dead and then take over the north without firing another shot?!
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That has to be the coolest train I've ever seen!
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A rather ridiculous comment to be sure!
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If I am not mistaken this design was created by the famous designer Raymond Lowey. He designed Studebakers, the Coke bottle, and other things, like trains.
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What an incredible sight this must have been thank you for this amazing photo
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How many color shots of this engine are floating around out there? Not many, if any. That's one of the things that make this such an incredible upload. To me, as an unabashed Yankee boy from the midwest, the Southern Railway was the Pennsy of the southeastern region of the lower 48. The other standard railroad. My first exposure to the Southern was a visit to Asheville, and Spencer, N.C. It sticks with you, really. Thanks for posting this.
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| Posted by John J on June 4, 2014 | |
Wow what a photo! When I was a kid my grandfather had a New York Central toy of the first streamliners. I remember thinking how it was so ugly and didn't look like any of the E's and F's I knew from that day that I loved! Now I'm in my 40's and just this year I got back into trains. I have learned that that toy was really modeled after a real locomotive. Had it been made after this picture I'm sure I would have loved it!
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War of Northern Aggression? The South started the Civil War by aggressively bombing the heck out of Fort Sumter!
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The true name for the Civil War is the "War of Southern Inferiority."
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An Art Deco beauty. I'm trying to find a pre-owned, HO scale brass streamlined PS-4 for my growing brass HO brass steam engine collection.
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