BAGDContext CSM

A very tidy station…no trains of passengers making a mess

Here is a lovely 1940s colour litho printed postcard fromt he US. I’m intrigued by these images and how the print quality and the subject matter combine…This is the Rock Island Rocket.

This is a lovely photo.

Thinking of Zephyrs, here is a picture of a bigger Zephyr…this time on the Santa Fe Railroad.

Here are some pictures of the Burlington Zephyr diesel unit from the 1940s. The train was exhibited at the World’s Fair and became a symbol of US modernisation…

One of the best graphic bits of the old BR was the Railfreight identity made up of heraldic elements. These had the great benefit of combining colour, scale and consistency across the various bits of industrial infrastructure relating to BRs freight operations.

This is the visual indentity for the Kent Link line designed by Eddie Pond. Here’s the link to our page about Eddie Pond’s posters and artwork…

http://www.rennart.co.uk/pond.html

Lovely

Here are some pictures of exercises is styling the Deltic locos of the late 1950s. The pictures are from David Lawrence’s new book about BR design. The pictures show the classic Deltic “fist,” and a couple of experiments in a more self-consciously American contemporary style.