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The Lindbergh Special “The Train That Raced A Plane”
When celebrated pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh returned to the United States
on June 11, 1927 following his successful solo transatlantic flight from New
York City to Paris, he was greeted by President Calvin Coolidge in Washington,
DC and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. There was intense competition
between several newsreel companies to be the first to get footage of the
ceremony back to New York to show in the Broadway theaters. Several companies
chartered aircraft, but the International News Reel Corporation instead
chartered a special train from the Pennsylvania Railroad.
E6s Atlantic #460 was selected as the locomotive, B60B baggage car #7874 was
equipped as a mobile darkroom to process the film on rout, and P70 coach #3301
brought up the train to carry PRR and newsreel company officials. The crew were
given permission to run as fast as they considered safe. And run they did.
The train made it to the electric changeover at Manhattan Transfer with an
average speed of 74 mph (119 km/h), a record never beaten by steam on that
journey, and with a reported maximum speed of 115 mph (185 km/h). The newsreels
brought by train reached the cinema screens and beat those flown to New York by
over an hour, due to the delay the latter experienced to process the film. The
Pennsylvania Railroad used this victory extensively in publicity in the
following years.
This train has been a work in progress since 2007. The original #460 and the
first version of the cars made their public appearance at Brickworld 2007. But I
was always changing and improving the design so I’ve never posted the whole
train until now. I think I’m finally happy with it.
The
full Lindbergh Special
The
Real #460
The
LEGO #460
PRR
B60b Baggage Car
PRR P70
Coach
Cale
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| (...) Very nice (as usual). I would have thunk that the end doors of the baggage car would not have had windows (but...?). I am still floored by the detailing you put on the interior of your cars. I'm almost half tempted to dare you to try that (...) (15 years ago, 22-Oct-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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