'I like a big good real book, not a little screen'

1972 Ford Falcon XA GT

scenes of Sydney transport as it was 60 years ago

These are a few stills from this promo film made in 1966. There is a brown L.A. smog effect, hopefully that was just the result of film stock being used and wasn't actual smog.

A Leyland Royal Tiger Worldmaster bus - and of course a Holden station wagon.

A suburban single decker train departs Milsons Point for the downtown.

The electric suburban train city circle tunnel not far from the Central Station.

The way cargo ships used to look.

traffic in San Bernadino, California, 1950s

See earlier posts.

a BCFe 4/4 electric railcar and trailer on the Martigny--Orsières railway, Switzerland, 1950s

The line still operates -- info

Sitmar Line ship 'Castel Felice'

"Built by Alexander Stephen in Glasgow, she entered service in 1931 as Kenya for British India on the India to Africa service based at Bombay. She was requisitioned as a troopship in 1940 and then converted to a Landing Ship Infantry in 1942 and renamed HMS Hydra and then HMS Keren. At the end of the war she was purchased by the Ministry Of Transport and used to repatriate soldiers until 1948. 

"In 1949 she was purchased by Alva Steam Ship Co. for Sitmar. Her name changed to Kenya then back to Keren then to Kenya again before changing to Fairstone in 1950. Later that year she reverted to Kenya and then in 1951 she was towed from lay-up in Holy Loch under the name Keren. She was rebuilt at Genoa and in 1952 sailed on her first voyage from Genoa to Australia as Castel Felice. She then entered the South America service and then in 1954 used for transatlantic service, first from Bremerhaven to Quebec then from Southampton to New York. This mixture of routes continued until 1957 when Sitmar won the British Government migrant contract to Australia, and from then she sailed Southampton to Australia. She was broken up at Kaohsiung in 1970."  (from ship-rex.com)

sailing ship in Coleraine, Ireland, late 19th century

Which isn't stated. (colorized)

Present day view

two NZR Ab class 'Pacifics' with a westbound passenger train at Springfield in 1931

 For lots more see the book On the TransAlpine Trail. (colorized)

1960 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Holiday Coupe

A promo postcard of the time. 

a BNSF GE ES44C4 leads a freight train through Washington state rocky landscape

It was built in July 2012, seen here a couple of years later amid basalt pillars on the Fallbridge Subdivision near Lyle.  (Mike Repp pic which was on the cover of BNSF's 2015 calendar).