With the “Hiawatha” Chicago - Minneapolis they attained around 125 mph or 200 km/h regularly. In daily service the “A” Atlantics of 1935 and then the F-7 Hudsons of the Milwaukee Road were the fastest ones. In regular service however, this locomotive with more than 7000hp caused problems, like also its “shark-nosed” smaller 4-4-4-4 sisters T1, due to their duplex-drive layout. Really the fastest steam locomotive with at least 141 mph or 226 km/h, was Pennsylvania’s “Big Engine” 6100, a 6-4-4-6, its streamlining being styled by Raymond Loewy. In England the streamlined A-4 “Mallard” by Sir Nigel Gresley was still a little faster than the German 05, but downhill only (adding more than 1000hp). The French 242.A.1 during test runs Paris - Caen (Raymond Floquet) The 05 001, departure at Cologne with a "F" train for
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After the war, when the streamlining of the 05 was removed (once again by Adolf Wolff, now working for Krauss-Maffei), she showed her full beauty. On the same track, the dark red streamlined Hudson 05 002 of Borsig, designed by Adolf Wolff and Dr. In 1933 it was the “Fliegender Hamburger”, the first really fast diesel railcar, running from Berlin to Hamburg with a speed up to 160km/h. Later the German author Bernhard Kellermann wrote the fiction "Atlantiktunnel" (by the wrong way via the Azores Scotland - Ireland - Greenland - Canada would have shorter tunnels….).Īs the steamers fought for the “Blue Riband”, railways fought for world’s fastest trains. Linking the world by rail was so fascinating, that in the early railway age Kingdom Isambard Brunel, the builder of the epoch's biggest ship, even dreamt of the Atlantic Tunnel. There was also a round-the-world route by the other way, via Suez and the Indian Ocean, served by the "Australian Mail", combined with the "Indian Mail", and by the "Boottreinen "Nederland-Express and Rotterdam Lloyd Rapide in connection with the Dutch steamers to Indonesia. The Overland, the North Coast Limited, the Empire Builder from Chicago to the West connected with the steamers bound for Japan, New Zealand and Australia, where mail and passengers were carried once again by rail, sometimes by famous expresses to their final destinations. Like its competitor, Pennsylvania's "Broadway", it was the best connection for the travelers arriving by Ocean steamers from Europe, which in turn were served by the Ocean Mails from London and the Transatlantiques from Paris…. This was "The World", New York Central's 20th Century Limited, America's most prominent train, running every night from New York Central Station, world's biggest, to Chicago. The 20th Century Limited with New York Central's Hudson and Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limited with a K4 Pacific during their great daily race through Chicago's Southside around 1930, a painting by Howard Fogg (coll.
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