?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
BERN HILL (1911-1977) LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE - THE OLD RELIABLE. 1951. 23 3/4x18 inches, 60 1/2x45 3/4 cm. Condition B+: extensive expert overpainting in upper image; minor repaired tears and restoration at edges. It is clear from looking at his images that Hill had an incomparable sense of graphic design and layout. His angles, perspectives and use of color lend themselves perfectly to poster design. "Operating statistics are proving the wisdom of the L & N's stepped-up dieselization program. In May 1951, GM Diesel-powered freight trains on the mail line northbound, handled 87,347 gross ton-miles per train hour - 47% more than in May 1949 when no Diesels were in road service. In the next year L & N will have 357 Diesel units handling about 90% of passenger train miles; 68% of freight ton-miles; and 80% of yard sitching locomotive hours" (Railway Age, cover December 31, 1951).
