USATC - Art!

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Dominic:

Your postcard art reveals signature features of the USATC S-160, 2-8-0
steamer.  An arresting April 1944 photo of S-160s on the ready tracks at
Newport, Wales, prepared by N&W's 755th RSB for the eventual Channel
crossing, is on p.7 of the ARROW, v. 19, n. 3.

Frank Gibson

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 > Featured in the John Piper - The Forties exhibition at
 > the Imperial War Museum London (2000 - 2001) - is this
 > pen and ink, pastels, gouache, watercolor, graphite
 > stick, picture entitled 'American locomotives awaiting
 > transhipment on the foreshore at Cardiff' by this
 > British war time artist.
 >
 > I have a postcard of the picture from the exhibition,
 > but don't believe Piper had any particular interest in
 > rail related subjects.
 >
 > A rendition is at
 > http://www.johnpiper.org.uk/american-locomotives-cardiff-1944.htm.
 > Neither this nor the postcard adequately reflect the
 > picture.
 >
 > Any other examples of USATC captured in finer art
 > around?
 >
 > Dominic
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