James Hilton (novelist) the occasional Tibetan monks in saffron robes. The name "Shangri-La" has become a byword for a mythical utopia, a permanently happy land, isolated from the world. After the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, when the fact that the bombers had flown from an aircraft carrier remained highly classified, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt told the press facetiously that they had taken off from Shangri-La. The Navy subsequently gave that name to an aircraft carrier, and Roosevelt named his Maryland presidential retreat "Shangri-La". (Later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower renamed the retreat Camp David after his grandson, and that name has been used
LNER Class A4 4496 Dwight D Eisenhower along with the other 5 surviving A4s. In 2015, Hornby also released a model of it in its original garter blue livery and name, "Golden Shuttle". LNER Class A4 4496 Dwight D Eisenhower 60008 "Dwight D Eisenhower" is an LNER Class A4 steam locomotive named after the United States General of the Army. Built for the London & North Eastern Railway in 1937, this locomotive was originally numbered 4496 and named "Golden Shuttle". It was renamed "Dwight D. Eisenhower" after World War II and renumbered 8 on 23 November 1946 under Edward Thompson's LNER 1946 renumbering scheme. After nationalisation in