Martin Blomberg

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Martin Petrus Frederik Blomberg (born December 11, 1888 in Östervåla , † 1966 in Winter Park (Florida) ) was an American engineer of Swedish origin. He was known for developing the Union Pacific EMUs M-10000 and M-10001 and the bogies of diesel locomotives from EMD .

Blomberg grew up as the son of a teacher and pastor. He graduated from the Technical Institute in Örebro and went to Uppsala University in 1910 . During this time he was very active in sports and was scheduled for the 1912 Olympic Games. However, he emigrated to Canada in the same year. From 1912 to 1914 he worked in a paper mill in Trois-Rivières , while studying technical drawing and mechanical construction at an evening school. From 1915 he worked for the National Steel Car Corp. in Hamilton. A year later, he traveled the 1,600 km long Albany River to Hudson Bay in a canoe .

In 1916 he went to the USA and participated in the US Army in the First World War. On his return he married Laura Van Buskirk. His son Richard Nelson Blomberg was born on October 21, 1924.

From 1925 to 1935 Blomberg worked for the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company , where he was soon responsible for the design of the bogies and car bodies . His exterior design for the UP streamlined cables delivered in 1934 received three patents (US patents D100000, D100001 and D100002).

On September 1, 1935, he began working for the Electro-Motive Corporation (from 1941 Electro-Motive Division of General Motors ). Here, too, he was responsible for the construction of car bodies and bogies from the start. In 1939 he developed the two-axle bogie for the new FT series freight train diesel locomotive . This bogie or derivatives thereof were installed in over 15,000 General Motors locomotives.

Blomberg registered a total of over 100 patents, 32 of which he developed during his time at EMD. In 1947 he became chief engineer after EMD's chief engineer.

He retired on June 1, 1949. He died in 1966 at the age of 78 in his retirement home in Winter Park, Florida.

swell

  • Max Ephraim jr .: Martin Blomberg, designer extraordinaire. In: Trains . 54th vol., No. 10/94, Kalmbach Publishing, pp. 46-49, ISSN  0041-0934

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patent USD100000 : Design for an articulated rail car or similar article. Registered May 9, 1935 , published June 16, 1936 , inventors: Everett Eugene Adams, Martin P. Blomberg, William H. Mussey, William B. Stout. ‌
  2. ↑ Patent USD100001 : Design for a rail car body. ‌
  3. ↑ Patent USD100002 : Design for a rail car body. ‌
personal data
SURNAME Blomberg, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blomberg, Martin Petrus Frederik (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer of Swedish descent
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Östervåla
DATE OF DEATH 1966
Place of death Winter Park (Florida)