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noun Something with a streamlined design, especially railroad locomotives and passenger equipment.
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noun a streamlined train
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streamline + -er
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The rescue of the four-year-old boy came about 21 hours after a southbound bullet train, traveling between the cities of Hangzhou and Wenzhou, was disabled by a lighting strike on a bridge and a second high-speed train bound for the city of Fuzhou from Beijing plowed into the stalled streamliner.
The rescue of the four-year-old boy came about 21 hours after a southbound bullet train, traveling between the cities of Hangzhou and Wenzhou, was disabled by a lighting strike on a bridge and a second high-speed train bound for the city of Fuzhou from Beijing plowed into the stalled streamliner.
When I was twelve I sat in the streamliner alone with a shoebox of sandwiches and deviled eggs my mother made, and ate everything right away as I headed north by the Sound where the trestles of derelict trolley lines roosted nations of seagulls.
The 35 meter high sculpture features two Audi cars – the legendary 1937 Auto Union streamliner as well as the just launched R8 V10 sports car suspended in the air, at either end of a dramatic ‘swoosh’ of tyre tracks, as if they are driving off into the sky.
When I was twelve I sat in the streamliner alone with a shoebox of sandwiches and deviled eggs my mother made, and ate everything right away as I headed north by the Sound where the trestles of derelict trolley lines roosted nations of seagulls.
Within a nanosecond of my reaching the other side, a high speed streamliner coming around a curve passed over those very same tracks at about 100 miles per hour.
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