Streamlined locomotives
of the world
NYC Railroad's 'Commodore Vanderbilt'
This New York Central Hudson (4-6-4) loco was covered with a streamline cowling by Norman Zapf in 1934 to be employed on the crack 16.5 hour 'Twentieth Century Limited' express between New York and Chicago.
This kind of streamlining was known as 'bathtub shrouding'. It was later re-styled in 1939 by Henry Dreyfuss, who also designed the 1936 Mercury for the Cleveland-Toledo-Detroit route (the one with the silver-painted disc wheels that were illuminated at night!).
This picture is from a cigarette card set from Wills's called 'An Album of Railway Engines'.
More on US streamliners from Wes Barris's Lost Forever (But Not Forgotten) page.
Preserved North American streamliners are listed on Wes Barris's Surviving Streamlined Steam pages.