Early experiments with streamlining
Template(s) drawn by Joshua Moldover, via The Railroad Paint Shop, and by myself, via my dining room table
In 1935, class B #219 had a run-in with a logging truck that didn’t stop/look/listen, and enough logs bounced up to crumple the front cab. When it went off to Portland to be repaired, it fell victim to the streamlining craze that was working its way through the railroad world, and got rebuilt with a front cab vaguely inspired by Union Pacific’s M1000/M1001.
Only half streamlined, though; the Portland shops wanted to extend the rear carbody to occupy the entire frame, make it a single-ended machine, & put a steam generator in where the rear cab used to be, but that was nixed by the central office, leaving the machine looking like this.