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Why is streamlining used on trains?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Often it was just politics and advertising up until about 1950.

At that point in time some trains were traveling fast enough (say quicker than 50 or 60 mph) so that air resistance became a significant retarding factor.

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