Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 06/03/2019 at 09:00 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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Welcome to what the future used to look like. 

KnowsAboutCars > ttyymmnn 06/03/2019 at 09:08

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This looks like better vision of the future than the one we have now.

benn454 > ttyymmnn 06/03/2019 at 09:19

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I like how the wheels look like whitewalls in black and white.

benjrblant > ttyymmnn 06/03/2019 at 09:33

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raymond loewy is one of my absolute favorite industrial designers of all time. bar none.

boredalways > KnowsAboutCars 06/03/2019 at 09:46

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It’s sad to think of all the high speed transit we could have had by now.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > boredalways 06/03/2019 at 09:53

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Trains>Cars

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 06/03/2019 at 10:26

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Think about that walkway being used when the train is at speed.

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 06/03/2019 at 10:28

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OSHA would like a word....

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > boredalways 06/03/2019 at 10:36

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Fun fact, it now actually takes longer to get into New York by train than it did 40 years ago. PROGRESS! 

Dakotahound > boredalways 06/03/2019 at 11:16

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In the 1930s we had high-speed rail. There was the M 10000:

And there was the Zephyr:

They could reach speeds of 110 mph.

I believe that the train pictured in this headline was the 20th Century Limited which, in 1938 (over 80 years ago) , could make the trip from New York to Chicago in 16 hours .

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > ttyymmnn 06/03/2019 at 11:35

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It could still look like that it's not too late 

SpeedSix > benjrblant 06/03/2019 at 12:26

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While Loewy did have his own studio, his role at the postwar Raymond Loewy Associates was mainly to direct and manage a team of other stylists for ‘his’ automobile designs , which capitalized on the Loewy name.

His prewar efforts, and perhaps other non-automotive designs, were probably more from his pen though.

benjrblant > SpeedSix 06/03/2019 at 14:36

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Much the same as big-name architects, right? Gehry is well known for tossing models of crumpled materials at his team and telling them to ‘ figure it out’

f86sabre > ttyymmnn 06/03/2019 at 21:45

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Look at that beast!

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn 06/04/2019 at 10:43

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TGV in france is about as close as there is to that monster.

Grindintosecond > ttyymmnn 06/04/2019 at 12:44

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I thought it was this.....