?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
SIGNATURE ILLEGIBLE THE GREAT ALL WEATHER FLEET / PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. Circa 1941. 40 1/4x25 1/4 inches, 102 1/4x64 cm. Condition B+: expertly-replaced and overpainted top and left margins; small replaced losses in upper image; repaired tears, creases and restoration in image and along vertical and horizontal folds. In 1936, Raymond Loewy designed a streamlined cover for the Pennsylvania Railroad's K4 locomotive, giving the engine a modern "torpedo" look. In 1939, Loewy designed the S1, the largest locomotive ever built (known as "The Big Engine"). Too large to actually negotiate many of the turns on the Pennsylvania Railroad's network, the engine was primarily used for publicity (such as at the New York World's Fair in 1939), as well as in brochures, calendars and posters such as this one. The red cars being pulled behind the engine are part of the PRR's "Fleet of Modernism," (Raymond Loewy-designed rolling stock / passenger cars). This image also appeared in magazine advertisements for the railroad.
