NZR 4-8-4 KA 933 pulling southbound freight at Taihape circa 1959

For lots more, get the book New Zealand 1950s Steam in Colour. (pic by the late great Jack Creber)

1979 Pontiac TransAm 5.5 liter

a Deutsche Reichsbahn Kriegslok in Czech clothes

A former Class 52 of the DR, a 2-10-0 became CSD 555.129 and is preserved operational, seen here on a fantrip.

pretty on the footplate

Of what we don't know, maybe a pic from a fashion shoot at a British railway museum.

Leyland commercial vehicles advertisement, 1962

(Thanks to Wallace)

cars outside a North East U.S. train station, early 1950s

Which isn't stated.  A still from an Encyclopedia Britannica film.

'I like to read a good real book for pleasure'

Tokyo's grand central station

Info at the time these pics were taken: "Tokyo Station, the main gateway to Greater Tokyo. Over 100,000 people use it daily. A Renaissance-style building completed in 1914 (Taisho 3), it remarkably withstood the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 (Taisho 12). The central entrance is reserved for the Imperial family. Cars and trains weave through the crowds in front of the station."

Info

Sri Lanka diesel multiple unit seen in 2003

It looks like a English Electric pre-WW2 driving trailer car, denoted as S1 series. The colors kind of match the environment.

moving cane and bamboo by small barges in Java, Indonesia, art

Probably for school use. Indonesia is the world's largest producer and supplier of rattan cane, accounting for approximately 70% to 80% of the global commercial rattan supply. Sugar cane is also widely grown in Indonesia.