Saturday, November 20, 2010

a DSB poster from 1934 with a certain propheticality


This poster in the DSB (Danish State Railway) Museum in Odense dates from 1934 and the opening of the København S-Ban or city railway system.

It shows a motley collection of passengers, one of which looks rather like Der Führer of Germany, and someone following him is carrying a valise labelled Argentina, which of course is where many of Herr Hitler's top followers fled to in 1945.

The Copenhagen S-Ban system, like that of Wellington inaugurated 4 years later, is electrified in 1500 volts DC.

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