Portal:Trains/Selected article/Week 52, 2007

Otto Kuhler (July 31, 1894 – August 5, 1977) was an American designer, one of the best known industrial designers of the American railroads. According to Trains magazine he streamstyled more locomotives and railroad cars than Cret (whose work was seen on the Pioneer Zephyr and Super Chief), Dreyfuss (who designed the "bullet nose" locomotives of the 20th Century Limited) and Loewy (who designed the Pennsylvania Railroad's S1 and GG1 bodies) combined. Kuhler's extensive concepts for the modernization of the American railroads have repercussions onto the railways worldwide until today. In addition he was a prolific artist of industrial aesthetics and of the American West in general. Kuhler (pronounced "Cooler") became a U.S. citizen in 1928. Among his most well known work was the A-1 to A-4 locomotive classes of the Milwaukee Road that were used to haul the Hiawathas, the Capitol dome logo of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the ALCO DL-109.