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The HD-6 Neptune is envisioned to use a fuel cell drivetrain based on the one in the Hyundai Nexo SUV that’s currently on sale in California for $59,395. Fuel cells combine stored hydrogen with ...
Imperial Western Beer Co., named after the legendary Southern Pacific train of the 1930s, is a cavernous space featuring tiled walls, a floor designed to look like a Navajo rug, and windows that ...
With the coming of daylight saving, U.S. railroads hiked the number of lightweight streamline trains to 115, up 75% in 17 months. Before 1941's end, at least 20 more will be added. Meantime many ...
The "City of San Francisco," jointly operated by the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and Chicago & North Western railroad companies, was the 10th of several dozen Streamliner trains made by Union ...
During the “Golden Age of Railroading” in the middle of the past century, the Southern Pacific’s Lark was the train to take between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, at least for folks who ...
Well aware that streamliner speed would appeal to the railroads’ customers, light-train builders like Budd and Pullman cannily concentrated their major sales appeal on coach-passenger comforts.
A footnote that remains curious to me is that, for all the national and worldwide attention surrounding the so-called Stranded Streamliner, the rescue train’s arrival at the Oakland Mole, and ...
While many mocked the design for its resemblance with a toaster, its inspiration comes from The Mercury streamliner train from 1936. It wouldn't be a successful launch event without the "one more ...