Nashville Chattanooga & St Louis Steam Streamliners (Volume 4)

Streamlined Engine 535 is at 0:35

Semi-streamlined Engine 536 is at 3:27

Semi-streamlined Class J-3 is at 4:18

*** 535 known as “Marie” was the last American steam engine to be streamlined in 1947. Marie was streamlined as well as mechanically upgraded with new cast cylinders & forward frame section as well as roller bearings, she pulled the City of Memphis. In 1949 Marie had a catastrophic failure of the side rods on the engineer’s side, this occurred near Vaughn’s Gap, Tennessee, the engineer reportedly “felt something not right about the machinery” & stepped out of the engineer’s seat position only to have the flailing side rods clean off the right side of the cab from the engine, he's movement to the other side saved his life, sadly Marie was then towed to Nashville & scrapped in 1949.

*** 536 was the first NC&StL steam engine in 1940 to receive semi-streamlining, she pulled the Dixie Flagler passenger train an all coach Chicago to Florida train. On her first day of service as a newly semi-streamlined engine she struck a vehicle at a road crossing which destroyed her streamlined pilot, a standard pilot then replaced the streamlined one, nine years later she was then sadly scrapped in 1949.

the pictures were scanned from my book collection they have all been heavily modified & Colored by myself, there my modified copyright ©

the pictures are from the Charles Castner - David W Salter - Frank Ardrey - George Votava - James Bogle – Collections.

Background Music is ''The Mad Queen'' then ''Don Giovanni (Mozart Epic Cover)'' all by Rok Nardin

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film footage is from my original 8mm reels from my collection that I converted into a digital format back in 2017, it is the copyright of the original videographers, it has all been heavily modified & altered by myself.

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