Kiev airport, Soviet Union, 1960s

Named 'Borispil' at the time.  The aircraft are Tupolev 104B from the late 1950s, scrapped about 20 years later.

Dresden's Kugelhaus

 

It was part of the annual exhibition of Deutscher Arbeit Dresden – Die Technische Stadt (German Labor Dresden - The Technical City) in 1928 and had a diameter of 24 meters. The spherical body was mounted on a ball neck of 11.5 meters in diameter and 4 meters high. The total height of the building was 26.5 feet, at a constructed area of 110 square meters of enclosed space measured 7600 cubic meters. 

There were six levels and an elevator. The building could be through a circular, atrium-like opening up or look down. Only the top floor of the restaurant had a closed floor area. The windows of the restaurant allowed a good view over the nearby exhibition area.

The supporting structure of the building had been built in steel frame construction. The metal outer skin consisted of sheet aluminum. The construction work took Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG (Branch Gustavsburg at Mainz).

From 1928 it served in several exhibitions at the Municipal Exhibition Hall as a presentation space for numerous industrial companies, mostly in the field of electrical engineering and energy. The last verifiable involvement in an exhibition concept was within the realm Garden Festival of 1936. Terms of its architectural effect, it was located at a central location. The ball house stood between the so-called fountain and tower-yard, two self-contained Hallenkompexe at the exhibition site, and across from the concert venue, with its large restaurant area. In this way, it was located at the intersection of two main axes of the building and was singled out by a building within sight of many relationships.

The building was demolished in 1938, because no buyer or operator was found. Previously it had been attacked by the Nazi press as "degenerate art". According to others the ball home was destroyed in 1938 as a supposedly "un-German." 

Today, there is the station of the park railway and opposite the round tower of the Transparent Factory, where Volkswagen AG outsourced their manufacture VW Phaeton vehicles. In the foyer of the Transparent Factory, a spherical movie theater is reminiscent of the Kugelhaus.

1920 Overland car advertisement

The company was founded in 1903 and in 1912 with Willys formed Willys-Overland.  Info

'I've just bought this good real pictorial reference book'

1939 Plymouth 4-door Sedan

Former Queensland locomotive AC16 218A with a passenger train

In action on the Zig Zag heritage railway in the NSW Blue Mountains near Lithgow. This 2-8-2 was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia and carried their builder’s number 69453. Assembly was completed at Ipswich Workshops on 10 August 1943 and the engine was released to traffic on the following day.

More info on the loco is here

cars on the L.A. Harbor Freeway, circa 1960

(Colorized)

SNCF tank engine with a merchandise train from Brive to Aurillac, 1965

On the line from Souillac and Aurillac seen crossing the then new viaduct of 'La Verrerie' near Lamativie on the Lot River. It's fairly obvious the intention was to bypass the tunnel.

DSG cars of the Rheingold at Cologne, Germany, 1962

The German Sleeping and Dining Car Company (Deutsche Schlafwagen- und Speisewagengesellschaft, later the Deutsche Service-Gesellschaft der Bahn or DSG) was a subsidiary of Deutsche Bundesbahn with its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, that emerged from the Mitropa infrastructure left in West Germany in 1949. It existed until 1994 when it was combined with the East German Mitropa to form Mitropa AG.

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Picasso in the Ardennes, 1962

An SNCF 'Picasso' automotrice and trailer exit the tunnel under the 'Quatre Fils Aymon' rocks and cross the Meuse river on the line from Charleville to Givet.

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