#Streamlined

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Diamond T Texaco Special

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Maserati Siluro 4CM Carenato, 1937, by Viotti. Designed Mario Revelli Di Beaumont and Giuseppe Furmanik, a radically streamlined land speed record car that resembled a torpedo. It was powered by a supercharged Maserati 4 cylinder engine that produced 200 hp at 7000 rpm, remarkable figures for the period. 0n June 2-3, 1937 Furmanik used the Firenze-Mare motorway to beat the class (1100 to 1500cc engines) record for a new land speed record  with a "Flying start", achieving an average of 237.568km/h. 

drawing by Massimo Grandi

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A sleek and streamlined minimalist dining table and chairs

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Advanced Steam commuter tank engine. The boiler, tank, and fuel bunker, and internal controls, are all nearly identical to the Advanced Steam Engine switcher i've shown many times before.

These were not popular designs as even with modernized features they struggled to produce enough steam to run at high speed. Due to being based around the boiler and top-frames of a switching loco, the wheels were limited in size, and due to the small gas producer boiler, it couldn't hall many coaches.

Several examples were preserved, but many were either scrapped or had their streamlining removed and used as short haul freight or switching locos.

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1930s NEW YORK CENTRAL J3a Class 4-6-4 Hudson Line

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'Argentina', The Pride of her Nation

So while looking around on a Reddit post, trying to look for information on why the JNR streamlined some of their C53s, I came across this bizarre feat of engineering.

This is 'Argentina', formerly known as 'President Perón'. A streamlined rebuild of ex Central Córdoba class B22 4-6-2 No.2011, and when I say rebuild, I mean they completely rebuilt the engine from a 4-6-2 Pacific into a 4-8-0 4 cylinder compound.

For context, this is the engine they had before:

And this is after they completed the rebuild and sent it to be exhibited in Buenos Aires around 1949:

Essentially, everything was rebuilt. The boiler was raised and elongated, the chimney shortened to match with the streamlining, the tender was enlarged and two extra cylinders were added for high pressure steam to be utilised (which is what makes it a 4 cylinder compound).

After tests were conducted, it was found that, yeah, they made the engine vastly better than what it once was. "President Peron", as it was known at the time, was said to have 1581 drawbar kW (2100 dbhp) and a power to weight ratio 23.2 kN/metric ton (31 dbhp/ton), which made it on-par with the best in the world at the time, the SNCF 4-8-0 240P class.

The engine's fuel consumption, despite being much bigger and more powerful, was also improved as the firebox had been completely overhauled, using on average 0.3 kg of coal/MJ of energy at a thermal efficiency of 11.9%, a world record for the time! It was also estimated that this thermal efficiency rating is lower than what it truly would've been at peak operation.

Many of the drivers and firemen of 'Argentina' have gone on record to say that it really is an amazing machine to drive. At one point, the railway authorities had heated arguments with the locomotive's creator, Livio Dante Porta, stating that the engine was being overloaded during service runs and couldn't cope with the loads it was handling. So, like any mad engineer at the time, he decided to prove them wrong by overloading the engine past it's weight limit. The engine coped remarkably well, even at one point coming to a gradient that even the fireman remarked would be "impossible to climb". Despite this, 'Argentina' powered up the gradient with ease despite still being overloaded, apparently leaving an inspector on board "red in the face"!

Despite being a streamlined engine, 'Argentina' would only run goods trains up the south west of Buenos Aires until the early 1960s, as by 1961, she would be taken out of service and left in La Plata depot after running over 70000km.

She would remain there until the mid 1970s, where she was then taken out of La Plata to various workshops for safe storage with plans to take her to a proposed transport museum, which would eventually happen in 1996 after a cultural initiative turned FCGP Norte railway station into a transport museum. She would be repainted grey and put on display with various passenger coaches there until 2004, as the Argentine economy got hit with a massive crash in 2001.

Plans before this economic disaster included Porta to get 'Argentina' back into working order, but those plans were quickly scrapped as finances quickly dwindled. She was moved to a shed near the museum, which by this time had closed, to be kept in storage in case any plans arose in the future, though chances of that happening are slim as many of her parts were stolen as the area she resided became abandoned.

Left under a shed with no roof, behind a carriage that also got stripped for parts, she sits waiting for something to happen. There may be one day when she goes back into service, but her future is still unknown.

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Rose's Diner

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Mercedes-Benz W 196 R Stromlinienrennwagen, 1954. One of four known complete examples and the first W 196 R with streamlined body is to be offered at auction by RM Sotheby’s in Partnership with Mercedes-Benz Heritage. It holds the unique distinction of being driven by two of motor racing’s best drivers, Juan Manuel Fangio and Sir Stirling Moss. Donated to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway by Mercedes-Benz in 1965, this W 196 R will be auctioned in Stuttgart on 1 February 2025. The car forms part of a collection from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum that will be sold by RM Sotheby’s to benefit the Museum's collection and restoration efforts

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“Flat chested”, I prefer the term streamlined

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