work tram in Porto, Portugal, September 1974

 The system is meter-gauge, a tram for maintenance of way, seen outside Massarelos tram depot. (John Ward pic)

Portugal 2-10-0T tank engine with a mixed passenger/freight train, 1968

It was a highly distinctive, articulated Mallet compound tank locomotive class. Built initially in 1910 and again in 1923 by Henschel & Son for the Portuguese railways, these uncommon mixed-traffic engines featured two separate sets of driving wheels (a 2-4-6-0 wheel arrangement) built on a single rigid frame. 

One of the surviving engines from this series (Class E, specifically No. E 38) has been set aside for preservation and static display on the tracks just north of the Pocinho Station in northern Portugal. It is located near the terraced vineyards of the Douro Valley (the pic likely shows the Duoro River), close to the Pocinho railway museum stop.

'I love finding good real books for my apartment'

1955 Ford Crown Victoria

a visit to the railway museum in Nimes, France

 

1962 Scammell Routeman II art

A Mike Jeffries painting of a Scammell Routeman II in the colourful livery of Smiths of Maddiston passing through Gloucester heading south with a load from north of the border. They were typically powered by a derated Leyland Power Plus O.680 diesel engine (producing around 185–200 b.h.p.) or the Leyland O.600.

trams crossing in Odessa, 1910s

Crossing above on the Stroganov Bridge and below.  The city has a network totalling 196 km on 14 routes in the Russian 5 ft (1520 mm) gauge which has been electric since 1910.  (colorized)

buses outside the Central Lenin Museum, Moscow in USSR days

The Central Lenin Museum in Moscow was the USSR's primary communist propaganda institution from 1936 until 1993. Located on Revolution Square, it used to house a massive 100,000-piece collection. Following the Soviet collapse, the institution closed, though a Virtual Museum of V.I. Lenin was later launched to showcase the artifacts. 

The museum's building in the pic (which served as the city Duma and is located adjacent to Red Square) has since been integrated into the broader State Historical Museum complex. 

Kiev, Ukraine tram, 1950

 "Volodymyrskyi Uzviz, 1950," the report that this pic comes from says.

At that time, trams still ran on Volodymyrskyi Uzviz, and there were very few trees on Trukhanov Island.

Trukhaniv Island is an island on the Dnieper River, opposite the central part of Kyiv between the main riverbed of the Dnieper to the west and its branch Chortory to the east; the area is about 450 hectares. In the mid-19th century, the first houses appeared on Trukhaniv Island, and in the 1880s a workers' settlement appeared. When it was destroyed during World War II, the island was converted into a recreation area.

France--England ferry poster, circa 1920

This was was commissioned of Sandy Hook, obviously by la Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord and the South Eastern & Chatham Railway and shows a paquebot postal in la Manche/English Channel with the chalk cliffs of Dover in the distance. "The shortest and fastest way"