The NYC’s Mercury
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The Mercury
The New York Central made its splash into the streamliner craze not long after the Burlington’s Zephyr and Union Pacific’s M-10000. Dubbed the Mercury this eye-catching train was not exactly a brand new streamliner. Instead of spending millions for a company to either build it such a train or do as the Milwaukee Road and have its own forces construct one from the ground up, the NYC decided to go the conservative route and piece together a consist from dated heavyweight cars. While the train was not new, thanks to the help of a noted industrial design the train proved to be very successful with the public and was quite stunning once it rolled out into the public. Overall, the streamliner was such a hit that New York Central would go on to fleet several similar trains by various names. The original was eventually dubbed the Cleveland Mercury and remained in service until the 1950s.
