W.M. Hunt

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Raymond Loewy is what’s cool about O. Winston Link.  

Link was obsessed with the railroad, and there is a museum named for for him in Roanoke, Virginia.  It is housed in a former Norfolk & Western passenger station that Loewy designed in 1949  It is sleek and Moderne and enchanting.  There is an inadequate recognition of the designer, subsumed by the Link collection.

Loewy was the father of streamlining.  His oeuvre ranges from the classic Coca Cola bottle to the Shell logo.  His first railroad industry design was the aerodynamic GG-1, the first welded locomotive.

His design emphasizes modernity, minimalism.  No excess.

Illustrated here is a shot of a speeding locomotive emerging from a haze of steam or mists, like a mirage.  It makes my heart pound with excitement.  Loewy managed to make locomotives look fast and big, harbingers of modernity.  

Thank you O.W. Link.

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