Oct 15, 2020 - Sale 2547

Sale 2547 - Lot 129

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000

DESIGNER UNKNOWN

WORLD'S FINEST FLEET OF TRAINS / STREAMLINERS / CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN RY. Circa 1938.


42x28 1/4 inches, 106 3/4x71 3/4 cm.
Condition B+ / A-: expertly-replaced and overpainted losses in margins; minor restoration in image.
These four proud, sleek streamliners built by Pullman-Standard, in conjunction with General Electric and General Motors, M-10001 - 4, went into service in the mid 1930s. By 1939 they had begun to be replaced by the EMC-E3 streamlined locomotives.