Train of Tomorrow
Rating
Title
Train of Tomorrow
Creator
Richie, Robert Yarnall, 1908-1984
Date
1947
Decade
1940-1949
Part Of
Robert Yarnall Richie photograph collection
Series
Series 6: Negatives and Color Transparencies Negative series: 3068
Place
Lake Orion , Michigan
Description
This experimental streamline passenger train was powered by a standard Electro-Motive Division 2,000 horsepower 'E-Series ' diesel locomotive with two 12 cylinder , two cycle v-type diesel engines . The model was an E-7 built from 1945 to 1949 . A total of 428 E-7s were built by Electro-Motive Division . For 2.5 years this famous blue and silver train toured the United States and Canada capturing the public's imagination as well as making important contributions to the railroad industry . Source : General Motors Media Archives .
Related Resources
Finding aid part 1 : https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/smu/00166/smu-00166.html Finding aid part 2 : http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/smu/00168/smu-00168.html
Keywords
railroads ; locomotives ; trains ; General Motors ; railroad crossings ; children ; men ; women ; rural areas ; bicycles ; Kodachrome
Physical Description
1 transparency : film , color ; 12.2 x 10 cm
Form/Genre
Dye coupler transparencies Film transparencies Transparencies
Digital Resource Type
Image
Digitization Date
Digitized: 2010
Digital Format
Displayed as .jp2; uploaded as .jpg
Archival File Resolution
Archival scan: 2400 ppi
Digitization Process
Digitization process: scanned as 2400 ppi, 16-bits per channel, .tif file; optimized and color corrected; derivative resized at 3000 pixels wide and resaved as 8-bits per channel, .jpg.
Physical Location
Cabinet 9 , Color negatives , E series , Drawer 2
Call Number
Ag1982.0234
Upload File Name
ag1982_0234_3068_K_2_train_opt.jpg
Archival File Name(s)
ag1982_0234_3068_K_2_train.tif
Digital Collection
Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection
Library
DeGolyer Library
Publisher
SMU Libraries
Rights
This item may be protected by copyright law. Please cite the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University as the source of this file. For more information contact degolyer@smu.edu.
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