Saturday, July 27, 2024

1962-1964 Mitsubishi Minica 360 sedan

as in "mini car"? It had a 2-cylinder engine.

traveling on the Mauritania iron ore railway

 

BR class 33 diesel-electrics


Also known as the BRCW Type 3 or "Crompton", the 98 of this class of Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives were ordered in 1957 and built for the Southern Region of British Railways between 1960 and 1962.

29 of them have been preserved.
 

1959 Ford station wagon

'Flatter the 5 senses'

1959 -- the peak year of fins on American cars


Clockwise from top, Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty-Special, Buick Invicta, Oldsmobile Super 88, Pontiac Catalina and Chevrolet Impala

Sacramento Northern boxcab electric locomotive art

'Sacramento Northern, The Clinchfield Route,' art by Herb Mott on the cover of Railroad Magazine, December 1953.

One of these is preserved at the Western Railway Museum -- info