Friday, May 27, 2022

heritage PCC car on the Embarcadero, San Francisco

See earlier posts. (Geoff Churchman pic)

the Taupo Totara Timber Company's Mallet art

A painting by the late Peter Baker from a 1967 calendar. The Taupo Totara Timber Co. Mallet No. 7 was a 2-4-4-2 tender locomotive built in 1912 by the American Locomotive Company at Schenectady, New York, It is now preserved at the Glenbrook Vintage Railway south of Auckland as GVR No. 4 and it is NZ's only Mallet Compound Steam Engine. It last worked in 2001 and has been stored since.

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not a UFO or anything abnormal

What about a Chinese lantern, flock of Canada geese, a meteor or a comet?

Thursday, May 26, 2022

'do you want to read a good real book?'

 

BAe Jetstream 31-3102


"The small twin-turboprop airliner British Aerospace Jetstream 31 for 18/19 passengers first flew on 28 March 1980, and was certificated in the UK on 29 June 1982. The new version proved to be as popular as Handley Page hoped the original model would be, and several hundred 31s were built during the 1980s."

Swiss 6-car TEE train set of SBB Historic

Seen in action last year. This has been made multi-voltage so it can travel to Benelux that uses different electric overhead systems to that used in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. See earlier posts. (Still from an SBB Historic video)

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this won't have been an official statement on the roadside speed radar

Usually you just get 'slow down'.

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

cars in Nogales, Mexico, 1950s - 1960s

 










Nogales, Mexico, is literally on the other side of the border fence with Nogales, Arizona, see earlier posts.