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12.00" x 8.00"
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14.00" x 10.00"
1218 Art Print
by Mark Karvon
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1218 art print by Mark Karvon. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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Designed and built by the Norfolk & Western Railway Class A locomotives were considered some of the best steam locomotives ever produced. Designed to... more
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Designed and built by the Norfolk & Western Railway Class A locomotives were considered some of the best steam locomotives ever produced. Designed to haul fast freight trains through the Appalachian mountains, these articulated locomotives produced in excess of 5400 HP. Norfolk & Western was rightly proud of their home-built machines and used them long after most railroads had converted to diesel. The subject of this print, #1218, was restored to operation in 1987 but was again retired in 1994. It is preserved at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, Virginia. Here she is shown as she would have appeared in the early 1950s.
About Mark Karvon
Prints of all artworks are available at www.markkarvon.com. All artworks are copyright Mark Karvon. As a kid in the suburbs of Chicago, I always was interested in the mechanical creations of man. There is something about a purpose of design and the engineering solution to achieve that purpose that always created a spark in my mind. The forms those machines took were captivating to me - the pointed nose of a fighter jet; the exposed driving wheels of a mighty steam engine, the streamlined shape of a submarine. And the stories of the incredible experiences of the men who operated those machines are the stuff of legends and sometimes nightmares. From an early age I tried to express my fascination through drawing. I suppose my first...
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