And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, December 5, 2025
1939 - Broadway Limited and Studebaker convertible.
Both are Raymond Lowey designs? He was such a famous industrial designer in his day, TIME magazine once put him on its cover. Toasters to the space program and everything in between.
Money drives today’s designs. Locomotives with their compartmentalized pieces are built for fast servicing to maximize profit. Cars today are designed for lowest common denominator acceptance by the buying public.
Blaming the government for bland styling is dumb. Probably the same doofus who blames government for wasting money on any art or architecture that dares step out of the boring line.
Train also rocks! I wonder what model that train is.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Railroad_class_GG1
DeleteNo, it’s not a GG1. It’s a Pensy K4 class streamlined Dreyfus
DeleteBack when we made beautiful things....
ReplyDeleteBoth are Raymond Lowey designs? He was such a famous industrial designer in his day, TIME magazine once put him on its cover. Toasters to the space program and everything in between.
ReplyDeleteOne of these streamline steam locomotives still exist. Norfolk and Western's J class #611. Still does excursions, this engine was built in 1950.
ReplyDeleteIt’s not a J class
Delete611 is a 'J' class.
DeleteLook at trains and cars today. What happened to us?
ReplyDeleteThe EPA and California referrendum law is what happened.
DeleteYeah, who wants cleaner air and water, anyway?
DeleteMoney drives today’s designs. Locomotives with their compartmentalized pieces are built for fast servicing to maximize profit. Cars today are designed for lowest common denominator acceptance by the buying public.
Blaming the government for bland styling is dumb. Probably the same doofus who blames government for wasting money on any art or architecture that dares step out of the boring line.
4-8-4 Baldwin Northern
ReplyDeleteIt’s a 4-6-2
DeleteIt’s a 4-6-2
DeleteSuperb industrial art.
ReplyDelete