POWER AND SPEED of Boston & Maine R-1-d Mountain-type 4117 (Baldwin 1941) are detailed "PRAIRIE ENGINE" is first in a series of oil paintings Wilmer Brice plans to portray Santa Fe locomotives "in an environment typical of the era in which they were built." Kansas was home ground for 2-6-2 No. 1004, built as Vauclain compound in 1901 and later simpled. A Kansan himself, Brice is art director of engineering publications for Cessna Aircraft. "THE BARBERSHOP where I got my first haircut was 8 feet from the Milwaukee. The effect was lasting," says James E. Dierks. His streamliner sketch is a product of his imagination and a shot by Ed Wojtas of a CB&Q dome car on an Illini Railroad Club special on Missabe. Dierks hails from Glenview, Ill.; is a senior mechanical engineering student at Cornell University. FIRST steam locomotive of this type which Thomas W. Solomon remembers was put down in oils largely from memory. The American was Atlantic Coast Line's No. 34, depicted at the water tank at the Dothan (Ala.) yard office. Solomon, a resident of Headland, Ala., formerly was employed by ACL and FEC, now is special projects designer for Hayes International. "THE FL9's carry one of the sharpest color schemes going," declares James W. McClellan of New Haven's EMD units. A 1961 transport economics graduate of University of Pennsylvania, McClellan is currently an ensign in the U. S. Navy. His art training came from a high-school teacher who allowed him to "draw trains while the remainder of the class drew vases." |