American Streamline Locomotive (Original)

Artist: John J Arnold
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 10" x 5" (265mm x 130mm)
Date: 1974
Code: ArnoldStreamlineLL

This is the unique original Gouache painting by John J Arnold.

The Streamliners: Pennsylvania Railroad Streamlined "Mallets". 52 of these trains were built for the Pennsylvania Railroad. They weighed more than 1,000 tons and could travel at over 100m.p.h. The tender alone weighed more than the largest locomotive and tender combined that was ever used on a British Railway. The unique wheel formation was 6-4-4-6 although a version with shorter overhangs and less streamlining was produced with a 4-4-4-4 set.

Original artwork from Look and Learn no. 633 (2 March 1974).

• Artist Biography
  John J Arnold
  John J. Arnold was a commercial artist specialising in transport. He is known to have contributed illustrations to Look and Learn and Speed & Power magazines, and almost certainly contributed to other IPC Transport titles. His work for Look and Learn often involved beautifully rendered line & wash diagrams of cars, such as in his 'Classic Cars' series (1974) and 'Novelties of Mobility' (1974-75).
  
  He also illustrated other forms of transport, including sailing ships and paddle steamers.