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Sharknose is a term applied byrailfans to the styling of severalcab unitdiesel locomotives built by theBaldwin Locomotive Works to the specifications of thePennsylvania Railroad. The styling was by Baldwin Locomotive Works under the direction of Mr. Donald L. Hadley. Design Patent D154,120 bears his name.[1]
Locomotives commonly known as "sharknoses" include:
While the passenger models were unique to the Pennsylvania Railroad, other railroads purchased and operated the freight models, including theNew York Central,Baltimore and Ohio andElgin, Joliet & Eastern. The New York Central was the last original owner to operate the engines, selling the last of them to the Monogahela Railway for $6,000 each (equal to $56,581 today) in late 1967. By 1972, all but two of them, the 1205 and 1216, had been scrapped. The final pair also were sold for scrap in 1974, but were rescued from the torch by theDelaware and Hudson Railroad, which at the time was also operating the world's last fourAlco PA-1 passenger locomotives. The pair were purchased by Castolite Corp. in 1978, which leased them for use on the Michigan Northern. Both engines have purportedly been stored out of public view on the property of theEscanaba and Lake Superior Railroad for more than 20 years.[citation needed][2]
The name "sharknose" has also been given to streamlined automobiles of the 1930s and 1940s, because of their design, first introduced in 1936 on the 1937Willys passenger cars. Willys continued to manufacture them in this design until the beginning ofWorld War II. The term was applied to the 1938Graham-Paige "Spirit of Motion." The design was also used on the 1941Nash, as well as 1940s Hudson models. The last automobile with this design was the 1947 Hudson.
Many classic BMWs from the 1960s to the 1980s were also designed with a pronounced nose that is commonly referred to as a shark nose.[3]