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Land Sharks...Or Land Vessels

You've likely heard the T1's referred to as "Sharknoses" or more likely you've heard that name applied to a series of Baldwin Diesels.

The shape is very obviously inspired by that of the PRR's famous duplex, but the Sharknose wasn't actually a standard body in Baldwin's catalog until the RF-16 , or BF16 as the Pennsy called them

With the exception of the Centipedes, all the Baldwin Cabs on the PRR were Sharks. They had the only DR-4-4-1500's as Sharknoses, and the only such "DR-6" units as well. Class BF15's were basically identical to the later BF16's

And there were also the BF16z, depowered versions of the longer "DR-6" series, or BP20. Incidentally, this variant was mechanically exclusive to the PRR as well, using a pair of Straight-6 supercharged engines instead of Straight-8 naturally aspirated.

Contrary to popular belief, the styling applied to the Badlwin Sharknose diesels is not a product of Raymond Loewy. A seperate firm developed this design, clearly taking inspiration from the production T1's, which were modified to be easier to build.

As for the prototypes? Well there's a Sharknose that bears a resemblance, but the Graham Spirit of Motion line didn't really pick up the nickname at first. Plus there were other marks like Pontiacs and Lincolns which had a similar style

A tad fitting considering the T1's have most of their equipment under the "front hood" compared to most steam locomotives.

But the long angled prow, and the portholes, are more reminiscent of an ocean liner. Perhaps a dreadnought as a Wilkes-Barre newspaper described.

Now while there's a passing resemblance to the Baldwin Cabs, the styling cues of the prototype T1's can be traced more directly to another streamlined diesel. One which is even more of an ocean vessel on rails

The Fairbanks Morse Erie-Builts

The carbody design was from Loewy himself, with a similarly striking naval prow or "boat nose" compared to the swept back "shovelnose." Their prime movers are also naval in design, opposed-piston units that could output 2,000 horsepower individually, where nearly ever other -axle cab unit (including Baldwins Sharks) needed two prime movers. Not too dissimilar to how the T1's attain substantial horsepower with smaller fireboxes and boilers than their contemporaries.

Unusually the Eries were conceived for dual-service, and the largest order to the PRR were freight units, class FF20. Several would be ungraded for passenger work, but I don't believe the PRR retired any FP20's.

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Love the puns from Pun Hub

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You hate that your favorite bands are exercising their free speech.

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whenever i click the cc button on a youtube video that clearly has a high budget and is made by a fucking studio and i see “english - auto generated” i spit daggers from my eyes and mouth at whoever decided to not pay someone to make actual captions

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easily one of my favourite tweets of all time

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why didn't they just leave pompeii when the volcano erupted? were they stupid?

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I think I just found the only reasonable exchange involving two people with opposing views on porn to ever exist on this website

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Laptops are always so much more Fucked than phones in my experience. A laptop is like a beautiful horse that wants nothing more than to break all of its legs. A decently solid android phone will act normal

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An aquarium in Japan was closed for renovations, and their resident sunfish got depressed not seeing visitors. So the staff put some uniforms with printed faces against the tank, and it immediately recovered.

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[now i'm going to say something that will upset you: i know what you look like. i know your feet and hands and your skin. i know your head and your hair and your heart. you shouldn't bite your nails.]

every now and then i think about i'm thinking of ending things by iain reid

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I got around to make these

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little miss awful body temperature regulation is taking his hoodie off again

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my favorite pnf bits in no particular order

- Big Laundry

- ferb making shit up for no reason just to mess with people

- "fossils dun dun dun"

- "I am to metaphor cheese as metaphor cheese is to transitive verb crackers"

- buford's assortment of random items (obscure musical instruments, life-sized molds of everyone, velvet rope, marlin)

- that sequence in out to launch where they keep showing actual rocket crashes

- "and fall. keep falling. and keep being a platypus"

- the entire backstory from chronicles of meap (the ocelots? balloony? iconic)

- "perry the platypus did you just go 'gungalingadung'"

- the whole peter the panda saga

- "careful out there... washing my car. don't scratch it"

- "cowabunga laws of nature"

- the ducky momo "I hate people" plate

- "thwart me perry the platypus"

- "now I gotta go do something nice to balance out the universe see you on the news"

- the entire game show from let's take a quiz

- "you can run but it won't be to the college of your choice I tell you"

- "bigger than a refrigerator but smaller than a really big refrigerator"