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PKP class Pm36 - the aerodynamic steam locomotive

Pm36 was an experimental 4-6-2 (2'C1', "Pacific") steam engine designed by Fablok engineer Kazimierz Zembrzuski and his team in 1936 to serve as an express train.

Two locomotives were built for testing purposes. First (Pm36-1, factory number: 662) was finnished in the early 1937 and was fitted with aerodynamic shell, that coverd everything (including tender) outside of the driving wheels, helping to achieve higher speeds.

The shape of the shell was accepted by the Institute of Aerodynamics of Warsaw University of Technology after its wooden replica was tested in the wind tunnel.

Later that year it arrived at Paris World Expo where it was awarded a gold medal

Second locomotive Pm36-2 was built in october of 1937 and for the purpose of comparison it didn't have a shell. Although it was lighter by 2,7 t than Pm36-1 it was slower by about 20km/h (12,5 mph).

During the war both locomotives both engines were lost around september campaign and eventually became a part of the Deutsche Reichsbahn fleet (Pm36-1 in 1939, Pm36-2 in 1941 after operation Barbarossa). Pm36-1 was lost (presumably destroyed) during the war but Pm36-2 was evacuated to Austria in 1944 from where it was sent back to Poland in 1947. It was expoited until 1966, in 1970 it was crossed off of the PKP inventory and in 1973 it was given to Warsaw Railway Museum.

on 1995, on "150th anniversay of railway on polish soil" Pm36-2 was renovated, given the name Piękna Helena (Beautiful Helena) and it stations in Wolsztyn Steam Locomotovie Depot whare it's in active service to this day.

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Monument - Kanton Wallis- Schweiz🇨🇭

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[nieleczony]

I have made my return. I shall post more train facts.

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House of Sculptor Kurt Brunner (1958-59) in Kriens, Switzerland, by Walter Rüssli

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[scavengedluxury]

Kosztolányi Dezső Square bus station, Budapest, 1964. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[allthingseurope]

Wroclaw, Poland (by Michal)

[polish-spirit]

Droga na Wysoki Wierch (1921-1937).

[lei-ren]

Boo!

[seemoreandmore]

Toni Schneiders

[agelessphotography]

Man throwing a firebomb during the Battle of the Bogside, Derry, Northern Ireland, Tony McGrath, August 1969

[henk-heijmans]

Tobogganing on Hampstead Heath, London, 1938 - by Frederick G Roper, English

[retrogeographie]

Knutange, vue générale.

[germanpostwarmodern]

Headquarters (1955) of “Plaatselijke Telefoondienst” in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, by Jan Leupen

[lostfunzones]

Walsend, Newcastle, England (1962) Photo by Colin Jones

[aic-modern]

Linear Construction in Space No.2, Naum Gabo, 1949, Art Institute of Chicago: Modern Art

Gift of Florene M. Schoenborn Size: 40 x 20 x 20 in. Medium: Plastic nylon

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/109891/