Martin Petrus Frederik Blomberg

Classic Trains General Discussion
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I am looking forward to the writeup on Mr. Blomberg in the next issue of Classic Trains. I created the english version of his bio on Wikipedia back in April 2008. I found his son in New England where I added some more material to Wikipedia. Hopefully it can provide some insight of his work in Canada.

While Mr Blomberg was noted in creating the A-1-A truck used on the E’s and his patent is filed at the USPTO, his B truck was a modification (I’m guessing) of his A-1-A since I can’t find a patent on the “Blomberg” truck. I did come across the patent for a welded frame (SC switcher became SW switcher), AAR truck, lots of patents on the E-4, as well as ones filed when he was with Pullman. Despite of some claims the M10000 was the work of General Motors’ Harley Earl, patent number D100,000 clearly shows Mr. Blomberg name.

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Harley Earl was responsible for the overall shape of the M10000 and other EMD locomotives. Harley Earl was GM’s vice president of the auto styling group. In that era all the ideas for streamline cars were apparently patentable.

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Was Harley Earl responsible for the four portholes on the FT? [:-^] Very similar to the ventiports on Buicks.

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Chris Klein is listed on the Es design patent in addition to Hamilton and Blomberg.
Mr Klein was with GM (maybe with the Harley Group).

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FYI A few years back there was a piece on Mr Blomberg in trains. As I recall it also touched on his work at Pullman.’

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