Bratislava tram postcard circa 1910

At the time the city was called Pressburg in German and Pozsony as it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now the capital of Slovakia. See earlier posts.

Max Schiemann electric road train circa 1903

The train operated in the Biela valley near Dresden, Germany, and utilized a then unique current collection system developed by Schiemann, employing two horizontally parallel overhead wires, later used universally for trolleybuses. These vehicles could pull 3 to 4 wagons and travel at speeds of 6 to 30 km/h depending on load and terrain.

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early Toronto Transit Commission experimental trolley bus

A painting titled "Trolley on Mt Pleasant Toronto c. 1922" by artist Ken Kirsch which depicts an experimental trolley bus which operated between 1922 and 1925.

Operating on the Mount Pleasant route, the 1.9-km line served as a cost-effective alternative to laying streetcar tracks in lower-density neighborhoods. The experiment was so successful that ridership outgrew the small buses, leading the TTC to replace them with streetcars in 1925. 

There were 4 buses numbered 20 through 23 which had J.G. Brill bodies on Packard Motor Car Company frames, and Westinghouse electric motors. Tires were solid rubber (not pneumatic). They had seats for 29 passengers.

(via transittoronto.ca)

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Soviet electric railway poster 1931

Soviet propaganda poster showing a steeple cab electric loco as a centerpiece and a similar loco hauling a freight train on a bridge above. It states '3690 kilometers' and seems to promote a new train line for the Ukraine for completion over 1932-1933.

Yugoslavia railway poster, 1949

This advertised the 2nd Congress of the Union of Railway Workers and Employees of Yugoslavia in Zagreb from 13-15 March 1949.  It obviously features communist imagery, including an industrial background and a red star on one of the locomotives.

British Railways holiday train poster, 1950s

 Featuring a Class 40 diesel locomotive. The Lincoln green livery was quite an attractive one.

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.