Each car of a conventional train rode on a pair of heavy cast
metal trucks (bogies) in which the wheels turned. In some cases,
the new streamliners shared trucks under adjoining cars which
reduced additional weight.
The internal mechanisms of streamliners were hidden beneath
aerodynamic forms, almost as if they were powered by some
magic force. Created by industrial designers and artists, these
new trains were finished with flashy, attention-getting color
schemes or had polished corrugated stainless steel exteriors.
Demonstration runs were staged to drum up publicity, and speed
records all over the country were broken by the streamlined trains.
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4. Diagram of the Daylight train, shown in the inaugural con-
sist of 1937 and the consist of January 1938.
