?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
DESIGNER UNKNOWN THE SOUTH WIND / PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. 1940. 40 1/4x25 1/4 inches, 102 1/4x64 cm. Condition B+: small replaced losses and overpainting in upper image and along vertical and horizontal folds; slight staining from glue residue on verso, showing through. The streamlined South Wind began service in 1940 running between Chicago and Miami. The train was operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad, but ran on tracks belonging to the Louisville and Nashville railroad, the Atlantic Coast Railroad and the Florida East Coast Railway. She was one of three trains that worked the same route along with The City of Miami (operated by the Illinois Central) and the Dixie Flagler (operated by the Florida East Coast Railway). Her seven cars were painted in the same livery that Raymond Loewy had designed for Pennsylvania Railroad's "Fleet of Modernism"- Tuscan red with gold stripes. Among other claims to fame, the train was also the subject of a 1970 Johnny Cash song, "Southwind." She remained in service until 1971. Zega fig. 151.
