Union Pacific Streamliner is a piece of digital artwork by Douglas Pittman which was uploaded on July 4th, 2020.
Union Pacific Streamliner
Built in 1932, the M-10000 was a three-car trainset measuring 204 feet. The trainset was articulated using shared Jacobs bogies to reduce weight,... more
Title
Union Pacific Streamliner
Artist
Douglas Pittman
Medium
Digital Art - Photographic Artwork
Description
Built in 1932, the M-10000 was a three-car trainset measuring 204 feet. The trainset was articulated using shared Jacobs bogies to reduce weight, making the train operate as one integrated unit rather than as a separable locomotive and cars. The integrated-body-and-frame construction, using aluminum, reduced the structural weight to a fraction of that for conventional body-on-frame railcars.
The M-10000 was placed in revenue service as The Streamliner on January 31, 1935. It was subsequently named City of Salina as Union Pacific adopted the "City of..." convention for its new streamliners, but was also nicknamed the "Tin Worm" or "Little Zip". It operated until December 1941, by which time its engine required replacement. This was deemed prohibitively expensive and the trainset was subsequently scrapped, with its aluminum recycled for use in the wartime aircraft industry.
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July 4th, 2020
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