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The first two Beaver Tail cars, the Nokomis and Wenonah, entered service on the original Hiawatha in 1935. On the re-equipping of the Hiawatha in 1936 they moved to the North Woods Hiawatha, and then finally to the Chippewa-Hiawatha in 1938. The Milwaukee Road removed the Beaver Tails in September 1951; the two cars were converted to storage ...
Breaking with the "Beaver Tail" design, the rear of the Skytop Lounge was 90% glass, with multiple rows of windows reaching up to form the ceiling. In the four parlor-lounges this "solarium" contained 12 seats, with an additional 24 seats in the interior of the car. At the front of the car was a four-seat drawing room.
The original Wasp Jr radial engine of the Beaver is long out of production, so repair parts are getting harder to find. Some aircraft conversion stations have addressed this problem by replacing the piston engine with a turboprop engine such as the PT6. The added power and lighter installed weight, together with greater availability of kerosene ...
A classic BeaverTails pastry with cinnamon and sugar. The BeaverTail is a fried dough pastry that is sold in a variety of flavours. Most flavours of BeaverTails are topped with sweet condiments and confections, such as whipped cream, banana slices, crumbled Oreos, cinnamon sugar, and chocolate hazelnut.
Calochortus coeruleus, beavertail grass; Beavertail State Park, in Rhode Island, U.S. Beavertail Hill State Park, in Montana, U.S. Beavertail, a type of flatbed truck tow truck; Beaver Tail (railcar), built by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad 1934–1938; Beaver-tail, an observation car on The Coronation British passenger ...
Beaver Motorcoach Corporation (also known as Beaver Coach) is a defunct American motor coach manufacturing company that was based in Oregon. The company's manufacturing plant was initially located in Bend and later moved to Coburg. After its initial bankruptcy, the Beaver Coach brand name was purchased by a series of parent companies before it ...
Long-tail boats in Poda island, Krabi, Thailand. The long-tail boat ( Thai : เรือหางยาว , RTGS : ruea hang yao , [ 1 ] pronounced [rɯ̄ːa̯ hǎːŋ jāːw] ) is a type of watercraft native to Southeast Asia that uses a common automotive engine as a readily available and maintainable powerplant. [ 2 ]
The Porsche 917 is a sports prototype race car developed by German manufacturer Porsche to exploit the regulations regarding the construction of 5-litre sports cars. Powered by a Type 912 flat-12 engine which was progressively enlarged from 4.5 to 5.0 litres, the 917 was introduced in 1969 and initially proved unwieldy on the race track but continuous development improved the handling and it ...