1959 Mercedes-Benz O 319 bus

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Chemins de fer de l'Est (France) to the Lötschberg (Switzerland) route poster, circa 1913

One assumes that is a railway tunnel on the Lotschbergbahn, although the track isn't obvious.  See earlier posts on the Lotschberg.

Jugoslavia electric locomotive stamp, 1995

What looks like a JŽ series 461. At this point the former Yugoslavia was disintegrating with violent conflict between the constituent states.

'I love my job because it involves real books'

Westinghouse electric locomotive demonstration train, 1905

The Westinghouse Company's exhibits at the International Railway Congress, Washington, 1905. with a fifty-car train, and the track exhibition included also train collisions at comparatively high speeds arranged to demonstrate the great capacity of the Westinghouse friction draft gear in absorbing and dissipating the shocks of impact and reaction. 

The electric locomotive exhibited was at that stage the most powerful ever constructed to take current from an overhead wire, and the first alternating current locomotive built for use in America. It was divided into halves, designed for separate operation separately if desired, each half equipped with three 225 hp motors. With the motors at nominal full load, the drawbar pull at ten miles per hour [16 km/h] was 50,000 pounds [23 tonnes], but dynamometer tests in hauling the fifty-car train, weighing unladen  2,250,000 pounds, developed on several occasions a steady drawbar pull of from 60,000 to 65,000 pounds, and momentary efforts as high as 100,000 pounds without slipping wheels. It was operated from a trolley circuit of 6600 volts, the reduced motor voltage being variable. 

a red car with a horse

Hafeet Rail lets contracts to build Oman – UAE railway

 from Railway Gazette International

Three agreements have been signed paving the way for construction of a 303 km mixed-traffic railway linking the port of Sohar in Oman with Abu Dhabi in the UAE.

The contracts for the project, which is expected to have a total budget of around US$3 billion, were announced on April 23 during the joint UAE-Omani Business Forum in Abu Dhabi.

At the same event, the Oman – Etihad Rail joint venture of national railway project promoters Oman Rail and Etihad Rail, which was formed in September 2022, announced that it is to rebrand as Hafeet Rail. Hafeet Rail will also maintain the railway line between Sohar and the existing UAE national rail network.

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European Railways poster, 1972

"Trains roll all the time"

1930s Atlantic Coast Line 0-6-0 prototype and HO scale model

With slope tenders.  Model by Bachmann -- info

Prototype info on SteamLocomotive.com

1968 ZAZ Zaporozhets

Pickfords Scammell truck, 1950s

"Under the watchful eye of a policeman, and the driver's mate, a huge pressure vessel is being delivered to Woolwich Docks. Such boilers might have to travel many miles on muds narrower roads than today's, causing major traffic congestion. Drivers also had to be very skilled to handle such huge loads.

"Scammell Lorries Ltd was founded in 1922 after an old-established firm of coachbuilders, G. Scammell and Nephew Ltd had experimented with a prototype four-wheel tractor and two-wheel semi-trailer. In the 1920s and 30s Scammell built ever larger and more powerful four- and six-wheel tractors, powered mainly by Gardiner diesel engines, and capable of hauling enormous loads on purpose-built trailers like the forty-eight-wheel example shown. Also caught up in the event are three cars. The Ford Prefect on the right is the 1939 Model 93A, rated at 10hp. On the left is an SS Jaguar 1.5-litre side-valve 4, and behind it may be lurking a Riley 12 Model 29S saloon.

"An unusual feature of this area was the triple tramlines, with power supplied to the vehicles via a centre rail, while the wheels ran on the two outside rails which also conducted power. The centre rail consisted of a conduit open at the top, with a sunken centre rail, and the tram had a trailing shoe that made contact to pick up power Only a very persistently kamikaze pedestrian would have managed self-electrocution, but one feels water and debris must have been a problem at times."

Mike Jefferies painting(?)

1938 Studebaker President

979 International Harvester Scout Traveler

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'I like to get inspiration from a good real book'

1980 Chevrolet Camaro RS

 

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US southwest steam railway art

Seen in the Tuscon, Arizona, passenger station. No details.

impressive vertical parking

old Wellington tram in the countryside

There were never any Wellington lines that did run though countryside, but this shows an ex-Wellington tram on the Paekakariki Tram Museum line on the Kapiti Coast; a nice drone shot by Waikanae based artist and photographer, Tokerau Jim on his Facebook page. See earlier posts on the Tramway Museum.

1951 Ford Custom police car

1951 Austin Taxi

 

1973 Lotus Europa TC (Twin Cam)

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2-6-6-2 'Mallet Mogul'

Built by Baldwin in 1929, and used by the Southwest Forest Lumber Mills, it is now displayed near the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff. (Geoff Churchman pic)

from SteamLocomotive.com:

The first Mallet was an 0-6-6-0. Around 1905 the Great Northern Railroad was interested in one but wanted a locomotive that was better suited to main line operation. Baldwin built five "0-6-6-0"s with leading and trailing two-wheel trucks. This configuration suited the GN's curving main line of the Cascades.

It wasn't until 1910 that 2-6-6-2s were built with their firebox behind the drivers and supported by the trailing truck which is normally why one would have a trailing truck. Subsequent 2-6-6-2s were built following this design.

The 2-6-6-2 was primarily a low-speed locomotive. This wheel arrangement was also commonly used on the logging railroads in the Western USA. However, the C&O (Chesapeake & Ohio) continued developing the 2-6-6-2. Their versions evolved into very large road locomotives. With their smokebox-mounted air pumps, they looked quite impressive. Fortunately, two of these class H-6 C&O locomotives survive today.

This wheel arrangement was also used by the Southern Pacific in their development of the Cab Forward locomotive. On the SP this wheel arrangement was called a "Mallet Mogul".

The truth about Flight MH370 that disappeared in March 2014: Decoding a Decade of Deception

 

1948 Mercury Convertible

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'do you have a good real book I can read with you?'

1959 Cadillac and a trailer

What in British Commonwealth countries is called a caravan. Probably the car was new when the pic was taken.

Ford GT40 model - of the 1969 Le Mans winner

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self-driving trucks -- what could possibly go wrong?

1951 Armstrong Siddeley Whitley

late 1950s Plymouth

1954 Kaiser Manhattan

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soft exteriors of cars aren't sturdy in a crash

From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:

Cars used to be able to take a hit. They weren’t as “safe,” it’s true. But the price you’re paying for that – literally – comes in the mail every six months or once a year, whenever the insurance mafia sends you the bill for it.

The bill – which has gone up by 26 percent on average over just the past 12 months – is based on the potential repair costs of fixing your late-model vehicle. Or the other guy’s. It doesn’t matter.

What does is that most of the cars on the road are soft on the outside. Their exterior panels are almost wafer thin, especially hoods. Raise yours and see. It is probably supported by a pair of small struts – because that’s all that’s needed to support a wafer-thin piece of metal you could probably bend by hand. You can imagine how much it will bend if you run into something.

“Bend” isn’t the right word, either. Bends can usually be fixed.

What will happen is the wafer-thin hood will fold up like a piece of cardboard – which might actually be preferable as hood material since cardboard is a lot cheaper to replace than a piece of wafer-thin stamped steel or aluminum.

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1968 Ford Galaxie XL GT

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trolley at the entrance to Chickies Park, Columbia, Pennsylvania, 1910s

Long abandoned, some remnants remain. 

1976 Lamborghini Countach LP 400

 
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double-headed steam passenger train in Kicking Horse Canyon, British Columbia, Canada

 
Some impressive scenery. See earlier posts.

1986 AMC Eagle Wagon

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a 1965 Porsche C356 cabriolet once owned by Janis Joplin

 

tunneling is complete on the L.A. Metro’s D Line extension

Two LA Metro trains (an AnsaldoBreda P2250 model and a more recent Kinki Sharyo P3010 model from the late 2010's) on the A line cross near LA Union Station. (Geoff Churchman pic))

from the L.A. Times

After five years of construction and numerous delays, crews have finished tunneling operations for the 9-mile [14.4 km] westward expansion of the Metro D Line, which will stretch from the current terminus in Koreatown to a new Westwood/VA Hospital Station.

The expansion project will add seven Metro stations and a high-speed connection from downtown Los Angeles to the Westside, according to L.A. Metro’s website. Construction of the $9.5-billion project began in 2019.

“As one of L.A.’s busiest areas, the Westside is the region’s second-largest job center,” Metro says on its website. “We are closer than ever to connecting busy areas and improving travel for everyone who lives, works and plays in L.A. County.”

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new NSW D set interurban trains

 One of the new sets at the Newcastle Interchange station. (Geoff Churchman pic)

from Wikipedia:-

The NSW TrainLink D sets, also referred to as the Mariyung trains, are a class of electric multiple units (EMU) being built to replace NSW TrainLink's Intercity EMU fleet. The trains will operate on services from Sydney to Newcastle, Lithgow and Kiama, allowing the retirement of NSW TrainLink's V set fleet, and freeing the H set fleet for reallocation to Sydney suburban services.

The first trains were delivered in December 2019. After a protracted dispute between the government and the drivers' trade union over their safety, the first are scheduled to enter service in 2024.

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Messageries Maritimes southwest Pacific poster, circa 1950

Featuring Tahiti and Nouvelle Calédonie.

'this a great real book, I'm so pleased'