Owens-Corning Fiberglas Print Ad 1942 - New York Central Plans Increased Comfort
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HOW WILL PEOPLE TRAVEL "TOMORROW"?
"By train," says New York Central as it plans increased travel-comfort to woo passengers in post-defense period. How an important basic material helps.
A RAILROAD using the imagination of a man, longer living, to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
The man was George Henry Daniels who died in 1905.
The anniversary is that of the Empire State Express, Back in '91, Daniels wondered how people would travel to the '98 World's Fair in Chicago. Got them to travel via the New York Central by building world's fastest locomotive. Speed captured the customers.
Today, the Central and every other alert railroad are thinking about how people will travel "tomorrow" when the present emergency is over. They foresee the time when current bomber production may change over to a vast horde of passenger plane production. Foresee the day when tank production again becomes a mighty flood of auto and bus production,
How will the railroads meet this situation?
The Central, for example, is using the promotional imagination of George Henry Daniels. But instead of capturing the customers with speed this time it's comfort. Passenger comfort. The new Empire State Express, which recently made its maiden run, is a dra matic example. It is beyond question one of the finest day trains in the world.
And what are other roads doing?
The Union Pacific and Burlington, for example, have already at hand a fleet of streamliners, were in fact the first roads to use streamlined trains to give give passengers the comfort and safety that would keep'em ridin 'the railsFrom the very beginning of streamlined trains, an important basic material has played a hidden but im-portant part. This basic material is Fiberglas Thermal Insulation. Why?
Increased passenger comfort means clean, fresh air without draft, even temperatures, restful quietness inside mars, completely air-conditioned trains. Fiberglas in car walls, ceilings, floors and ends keeps heat, cold, and noise nteide, where they belong, better than ordinary insula Lions
Trains "pound" at high speeds. This pounding shake lown ordinary insulations. Such insulations are costly to fix after "shakedowns." But Fiberglas is springy... loesn't shake down avoids the headache of fixing.
And because Fiberglas is an inorganic material, it ban-shes a common trouble in older-type dining cars. This common trouble is the dank, cooking smell that comes
from odors absorbed by some types of insulation.
Car builders like tight-fitting, easy-to-work Fiberglas for odd-shaped spaces in passenger construction.
Do you wonder that today, on the first stream-liners where this insulation won its spurs, it is contin-ually specified-that today it is helping the railroads step up up the comfort and safety with which they are woo-ing passenger traffic?
Let us consult with you through our railroad repre sentatives, Gustin-Bacon Manufacturing Company, and show you how Fiberglas benefits the operation of pas senger and freight equipment. Our information may possibly help you in in formulating your plans to meet post-defense competition.
Perhaps, you'll also be interested in Fiberglas as electrical insulation in motors, generators, car wiring. Or, as woven, non-fading, easy-to-clean fabric for drapes.
in cars. Or, as highly efficient air filters in the car's air-conditioning and heating system.
In any case, we urge you now to plan for the post-defense period. One step to take is to write: Owens Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Toledo, Ohio. In Canada, Fiberglas Canada, Ltd., Oshawa, Ontario.
OWENS CORNING
FIBERGLAS
Some of the famous trains where Fiberglas insulation is used
The Kansas Cityan.
Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe
The Chiefs
Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe
The Tulsan
Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe
The Silver Streak.
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Texas Zephyrs.
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
The City of Denver.
Chicago & Northwestern, Union Pacific
The Choctaw Rockets
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
The Laurentian.
Delaware & Hudson
The Prospector.
Denver & Rio Grande Western
Illinois Central
The City of Miami.
Kansas City Southern, Louisiana & Arkansas
Southern Belle.
Missouri Pacific
The Missouri River Eagles
Missouri Pacific
The Delta Eagle.
New York Central
The Mercury..
New York Central
The Twentieth Century Limited.
The Broadway Limited
The Trail Blazer
St. Louis & San Francisco
The Firefly...
Seaboard Air Line
Silver Meteor.
Southern Pacific
The Daylights.
Southern Pacific
The Larks....
Union Pacific, Chicago & Northwestern
The Challengers.
City of San Francisco .......... Union Pacific, Chicago and Northwestern, Southern Pacific
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