Talk:Streamliner

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  • Ambiguous: Streamliner is also the name of the first maglev left ventricular assist device (LVAD heart pump) to reach animal trials in the world. Disambiguation needed.
  • Should this page stay North America-only?
  • Foreign influences and influenced should be mentioned:
    • Flying Hamburger -- done Ironmani 23:25, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
    • British and German streamlined steam
    • and any others
  • Should deal with steam streamliners too
  • Interurban streamliners; the North Shore's Electroliners, etc.
  • Make this less about the Pioneer Zephyr and more general (Pioneer Zephyr should be its own page, and we should have a Burlington Zephyr page about them in general).
  • Talk about crossovers with industrial design, the whole streamlining school of design, and other such influences.
  • Famous designers of streamlined trains
  • Movies etc. featuring streamliners
  • Surviving streamliners
  • Talk about modern streamlined trains worldwide and the influence of the early streamliners on them
  • Marketing, advertising etc. featuring streamliners
  • Should this page be renamed to Streamlined trains?
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[edit] Streamlined Steam Locos

Are Mallard and co. streamliners or streamlined steam locomotives? Would an article on streamlined steam locomotives be appropriate?


  • Well, first of all, I think the term streamliner fits not only for trains or bicycles. Streamlined motorbikes are called streamliners, too. Also streamlined busses were called streamliners. In railway terms, streamliners are streamlined trains. Streamlined steam locomotives mostly hauled non streamlined trains, so I think, there should be a separate article for streamlined steam locomotives. I just know of only two streamlined steam locomotives that hauled streamlined trains: The Henschel-Wegmann train and the LBE train. Ironmani 23:36, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
  • I've added sections for cars and trailers per the definition however, I don't think they really fit here. However, I couldn't find a better location to show the breadth of this design concept. I've also added an external link to show the Bonair Oxygen (very rare as the company went bankrupt or something). I would be appreciative of the information being moved to a better general Streamline design article rather than it just being deleted from this article should it not fit. ````AlbertaSunwpata

[edit] Term for LSR cars

I really want to question this term, does this article have to refer to just trains as that term has been used do describe land speed record car. Willirennen 15:45, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Engine number explaination?

What do the ?-?-?-? numbers mean in the following? Can someone explain this or link to a page that does? "the Milwaukee Road's purpose-build Atlantics and Hudsons used in "Hiawatha" service; the Pennsylvania Railroad's duplex-drive 4-4-4-4 type T1 locomotives, and two Union Pacific engines, a 4-6-2 and a 4-8-2, used on the "Forty Niner" and other trains."

I believe it refers to the Wheel arrangement on the locomotive.QuartzZone (talk) 13:51, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Specifically, to the Whyte notation. A 4-6-2, for example, has two non-driving axles at the front, three driving axles, and one non-driving axle at the rear. 81.133.141.87 (talk) 16:20, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pre-WWI "streamlined" locos

I was wondering if any of the locos on this page (the earliest dated 1883) should be mentioned here? They're not strictly "streamlined" (as aerodynamics wasn't properly developed at the time), but their designers did attempt to reduce their wind resistance. 81.133.141.87 (talk) 16:26, 18 January 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Ten Fastest Trains?

"For a short time in the late 1930s, the ten fastest trains in the world were all American streamliners." Does anyone have a citation for this or, preferably, a listing of what those trains were? If I can verify this information I'll be happy to post those schedules online.--Ehbowen (talk) 09:24, 22 April 2008 (UTC)