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Thursday, September 17, 2026

FS E424 electric locomotive and local passenger train at Ancona, Italy, 1959

See earlier posts for more.

a 3-car tram at La Corniche in Marseille, France, circa 1910

The prominent building on the cliff was originally the Palace Hotel (later Restaurant La Réserve). Below are a power car and 2 trailers. See earlier posts (colorized)

Approximate view today

L.A. news helicopter crash kills 3 -- 2 news crew and 1 on the ground

Those who live in L.A. know what a fundamental role these news helicopters play in collecting TV news stories around the region and NBC LA / Telemundo staff are understandably devastated by this crash that happened while they were doing their job, in this case reporting on a fatal crash between a bus and a SUV.

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Automobile Club of Argentina poster, 1927

Automóvil Club Argentino

First National Tourism Conference

to be held in

Alta Gracia

sponsored by the Government of the Province of Córdoba and the municipalities of Córdoba and Alta Gracia

Tourism Week in the Córdoba mountain region

Information: Florida 640, Buenos Aires, or General Paz 71, Córdoba

(The poster commissioned by the Automóvil Club Argentino to promote tourism in Córdoba) (*)

(*) This is the text of the advertisement published in the newspaper *El País* in its edition of Friday, 25 November 1927.

City of Córdoba, Argentine Republic.

Irish CIE 2600 Class diesel multiple unit 1965

Córas Iompair Éireann or CIÉ's first batch of 2600 Class railcars (DMUs) were built in 1950 by AEC, as was recommended in the Milne report, another batch of them was built in 1952 for the Great Northern Railway of Ireland along with a final batch being built in 1956. The DMUs consisted of two 120 h.p power cars at each end with CIÉ's standard park royal coaches as intermediates. Later in life the power cars were converted to driving trailers and were operated on suburban push pull services in the Dublin area, this ceased however with the renting of an NIR 80 Class unit for the Bray-Greystones shuttle train in 1987.

The conversion of the sets to push-pull operation was performed by removing the main engines from all power cars and leaving the train lighting generator and steam heating boiler in 50% of the power cars. The 50% of power cars that had the generator and boiler retained had its cab converted into a vestibule and its windscreen blanked out. All but one of the power cars were scrapped in Mullingar and Dundalk in the 1980s, the final remaining power car has been rescued after 30 years of dereliction by the Downpatrick & Co. Down Railway where it will eventually be restored as a push pull control car.

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