Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Moscow's historical parade of trams

 

Reading Railroad retro poster


Copies are available commercially. The locomotive depicted, #2124, was built in December 1924 by Baldwin Locomotive Works as an I-10sa class 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type locomotive. The Reading Company completely rebuilt it into a T-1 class 4-8-4 "Mountain" in January 1947. It was initially designed and used to haul heavy trains of anthracite coal across the Reading Railroad network. from 1959 to 1961, the 2124 was brought out of freight retirement to lead the famous passenger "Iron Horse Rambles" excursions.


Zeppelin travel humorous postcard: Friedrichshafen - Chemnitz - Memel

Memel is now Klaipeda in Lithuania. This postcard looks pre-WWI, but such flights did happen in the early 1930s: AI comment: "Historic "Chemnitz-Friedrichshafen" and "Chemnitz-Memel" refers to famous airship flight routes and postal drops serviced by the historic Graf Zeppelin in the early 1930s. Commemorative postcards from these specific 1930s mail delivery drops are actively traded as sought-after philatelic items"