Raymond Loewy

[Anonymous]

I believe Loewy also designed the Studebaker Avanti automobile as part of an effort to save the company. He did some other autos for Studebaker as well. There's a very active collector group and I believe there are plans to bring it back one more time, should you want your very own Loewy design.

[M636C]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TheAntiGates

I ran across this image while researching Loewy, and have no idea who the customer was for the pictured design. Doubt that it was ever built.

Anyone have any details/info?

Thanks in advance

http://www.art.net/Lile/loewy/images/bureuloc.gif

(I really don't think it was the C&O M-1)

No, this isn't even a turbine! It seems to be a cab forward coal burning duplex (the two sets of cylinders are visible near the drivers, with a coal bunker carried forward of the cab, (like the M-1). The stack is equipped with a streamlined casing, and somewhere beyond that it merges into a streamlined tender (presumably for water only).

Now who could possibly consider such a locomotive? Wait, there looks to be a name down the side - maybe "Pennsylvania"? It's not that clear, but the last few letters do look like "A-N-I-A"

As a friend has said to me, "what could possibly go wrong!"

The lettering is very similar to more conventional Loewy duplex sketches shown in "Pennsy Power III", and I think I've seen a slightly different version. There might be a large Keystone just obscured on the rear of the tender.

M636C

[GN-Rick]

He also designed the Northern Pacific Railway's 1954 North Coast Limited
color scheme-two-tone green with a white separator stripe-forever immortalized
as the "Loewy NCL Scheme".

[samfp1943]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TheAntiGates

I ran across this image while researching Loewy, and have no idea who the customer was for the pictured design. Doubt that it was ever built.

Anyone have any details/info?

Thanks in advance

http://www.art.net/Lile/loewy/images/bureuloc.gif

(I really don't think it was the C&O M-1)

Raymond Loewy was considered to be the "Father of Industrial Design" he was durning the 1930's to 1950's the creator of many designs, from the paint scheme used on the Air Force's Presidential aircraft (starting with Kennedy's 707, and on to the current 747), the coke bottle, and most of the Pennsylvania RR's streamlined locomotives,
the K-4 Pacifics [see this web site] http://www.steamlocomotive.com/pacific/prr/
He also designed the S-1 and the T-1 streamling features, not to mention the styling features of the Pennsy's " Broadway Limited" .

If you "Google" Raymond Lowey there is all kinds of information, and photos on this man.
He was to the Pennsylvania Railroad, what Otto Kuhler was to the New York Central RR.
Sam

[Anonymous]

I ran across this image while researching Loewy, and have no idea who the customer was for the pictured design. Doubt that it was ever built.

Anyone have any details/info?

Thanks in advance

http://www.art.net/Lile/loewy/images/bureuloc.gif

(I really don't think it was the C&O M-1)