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This picture shows 6229 ‘Duchess of Hamilton’ in the USA. The locomotive was shipped to the USA for the 1939 New York World’s Fair. The organisers had requested 6220 ‘Coronation’, but LMS sent ‘Duchess of Hamilton’ instead, albeit fitted with a different nameplate and number plates, to match those of the first member of the class. LMS eventually decided to risk shipping the locomotive back to the UK in 1942, in spite of the U-Boat threat. Note the addition of a headlamp and bell, to comply with the USA’s regulations for locomotives.

This photo, which I have taken from the Wikipedia page about this class of steam locomotive… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMS_Coronation_Class …shows LMS ‘Coronation’ class locomotive no. 6229 ‘Duchess of Hamilton’, after its streamlined casing was removed. The Marketing department at LMS wanted a new class of streamlined locomotive, to compete with the new streamlined locomotives being operated by LNER. The LMS Chief Mechanical Engineer - William Stanier - was not keen on the idea, because the benefits of the streamlining were only apparent at very high speed, and not huge, but the streamlined casing meant that maintenance times (and also costs) were increased. Eventually he decided to have all the streamlining casings removed, and further locomotives built after the initial batch were built without it. This image was created by Wikipedia editor ‘Voice of Clam’ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Voice_of_Clam, who has released it into the public domain.

This photo, which I have taken from the Wikipedia page about this class of steam locomotive… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMS_Coronation_Class …shows LMS ‘Coronation’ class locomotive no. 6229 ‘Duchess of Hamilton’, as it was originally built, with a streamlined casing. The Marketing department at LMS wanted a new class of streamlined locomotive, to compete with the new streamlined locomotives being operated by LNER. The LMS Chief Mechanical Engineer - William Stanier - was not keen on the idea, because the benefits of the streamlining were only apparent at very high speed, and not huge, but the streamlined casing meant that maintenance times (and also costs) were increased. Eventually he decided to have all the streamlining casings removed, and further locomotives built after the initial batch were built without it. The photo belongs to a Flickr user called ‘cooldudeandy01’, who made it available for re-use under a ‘Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic’ licence.