an SNCF 231 type steamer with a passenger train between Paris-Nord and Calais-Maritime in 1957

A type 231 is a 4-6-2 Pacific type in English classification.

the New York 3rd Avenue El at Chatham Square, 1955

The stumps of the lower level City Hall spur—which started at Park Row and connected to Chatham Square—can be seen. This was permanently closed to passenger service at the end of 1953 and demolished in 1955, obviously before the time of this pic. The dismantling and removal project to fully clear the 3rd Avenue El from Manhattan's cityscape was completed in February 1956.

'when I get home I like to relax with a good real book'

a Wellington trolley bus from 1958

Built by British United Traction RETB/1 (chassis) and Metro Cammell Weymann (body).  For lots more get the books Wellington: a Capital century and Wellington Transport Memories.

The first diesel multiple units of the Ceylon Government Railways CGR (S1 Series)

Class S1 was a fleet of Diesel Multiple Units (DMU) built by English Electric for the Ceylon Government Railways (CGR), imported to Sri Lanka in 1937-8. Initially designated as D1, D2 and D3 they were later classified as Class S1 under the re-classification of loco rolling stock in 1938. Three sets were numbered 501, 502, 503 and they were named as:

1. Silver Foam (#501),
2. Silver Spray (#502) and
3. Silver Mist (#503)

They were the first diesel units imported for passenger haulage with the first run done on 25 February 1938. Commercial runs from Colombo Fort to Galle commenced on 14 March 1938 with a journey time of 2 hrs and 13 minutes which is the same time as today.

These sets had two engines of 180hp (135 kWh) each in the front and back. The normal make-up of the train units comprised a power car at each end in a push-pull configuration with two unpowered trailer cars in between.

Reports are that it went on a trial up to Kandy by removing one of the two trailer cars in between (thus two power cars and one trailer car).

The S1 series trains were in service until the early 1950s before being withdrawn in the 1954-56 era and scrapped subsequently.

1973 Toyota Corona Mk II Wagon

'Gas station' art by Edward Hopper, 1940

He painted quite a few transport themes and he painted this gas station from a two different angles, one with and one without any cars. The first one has Mobilgas pumps, today just Mobil, and the second with Fire Chief which was a brand of Texaco.  These and others are available commercially as prints.

shipping on the River Mersey, Liverpool, interwar years

Probably a school poster.

Queen Louise bridge, Tilset, Germany, 1908

The bridge, named after the wife of Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III, was built in 1907 to mark the centenary of the Peace of Tilsit with Napoleon. The bridge portal, which looks similar to the triumphal arch, was decorated with a bas-relief of Queen Louise (1776--1810). After World War I, it became a border bridge. Customs and a checkpoint were functioning until 1939, when the Memel region -- previously belonging to Lithuania -- became a part of Germany. In October 1944, German troops blew the bridge up during their retreat. In 1947, it was restored but a bas-relief of Queen Louise was taken down. In 1964, symbols of the Soviet state took its place and were not removed until 1995. Today, the bridge is a border bridge once again. Customs and truck parking occupy almost the entire square in front of it.

The Tilset (Sovetsk) bridge still incorporates the ornate bridge portal and it is still called Queen Louise Bridge (Мост Королевы Луизы).

Moscow's historical parade of trams