Issued at the time of the International Transportation Congress. The train is probably based on one of the Esslingen built 3-car sets from 1956, see earlier.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Israel bus and train medallion, 1965
Issued at the time of the International Transportation Congress. The train is probably based on one of the Esslingen built 3-car sets from 1956, see earlier.
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Pacific Electric in Downtown L.A., 1953
FDC's for the Valley Railway, Israel, 2018
Issued 3 weeks ago. What the occasion was, we know not, but a 2016 article on the standard gauging and revival of the one time 1050 mm gauge line is here
1948 Renault Panorama bus
The reason for 'panorama' is obvious, although it was clearly only intended for small groups. (via classicbuses.co.uk)
Portuguese 2-8-2T
Seen in 1973, this was built in 1924 by Henschel & Sohn; now in the Museo Ferroviario de Macinhata do Vouga museum.
'Corvette Summer' movie poster (1978)
This starred Mark Hamill of Star Wars fame, Annie Potts as a trainee teenage prostitute in Las Vegas and a pimped up Chevrolet Corvette...
Monday, February 26, 2018
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Pasar Senen station, Java, Indonesia, 1912
The Dutch name ceased when Indonesia ceased to be a Dutch colony, see earlier. The station was built as shown in 1896 and replaced by the present one in 1925.
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Saturday, February 24, 2018
Steam tank loco with a passenger train in the Massif Central, France
From the look of it a 2-8-2. No other details.
Friday, February 23, 2018
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Volchansk, the smallest Russian town to have a tram
It has been in operation since 31 December 1951. The system consists of one line which is 7.6 km long (some of it with an interurban character) in the 5ft Russian gauge and has 5 tramcars. There are 13 stops. The town's population is about 10,400.
Volchansk tram from victorprofessor on Vimeo.
tram on Mt Eden Road, Auckland, 1910s
With Mt Eden in the background. This location was a popular one for postcard producers, see earlier posts and of course, our books.
'Ka Country'
Many readers will recognise this Ian Lewis painting as it was on the cover of the first edition of The Railways of New Zealand: a journey through history from 1990, one of our most popular books.
It depicts 4-8-4 type Ka 933 with a passenger express on the North Island Main Trunk in the golden years of NZR.
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Mercedes outside the Hotel Wellington in Wenduine, Belgium, 1950s
A 180e? This street is quite different now, see earlier post.
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
L.A. streetcars on Broadway, circa 1956
classic Swiss Federal Railways scene of the 1970s
An SBB 'with compliments' card of the era. Presumably the Re 6/6 had stopped for the photographer.
Air NZ Boeing 747 at Gatwick, London
For details, see the book The Aircraft of Air New Zealand and affiliates since 1940 by Paul Sheehan.
Monday, February 19, 2018
Sunday, February 18, 2018
electrically hauled phosphate train, Morocco
On the line Casablanca to Khourigba. The loco looks like a E700 series which was an export version of the SNCF BB 8100, of which 14 were built in France by Alsthom in 1951 with a power output of 1,220 kW and a top speed of 110 km/h.
Austrian crocodile
The ÖBB class 1020 was the local designation of the German E94 class, a Co-Co type. After WW2, 44 of them were on Austrian territory and in 1952-1954 the ÖBB created a further 3 from parts for unfinished examples.
From 1967 to 1980, except for the latter 3, they were modernized and received, among other things, two rubber-fixed front windows (originally there were three narrow ones), permanent headlamp tail lamps on the end-bodies and jet fan grilles in them.
From 1970 they were also repainted in orange instead of fir green. In 1995, the last locomotives of this series were retired.
This one has a class 1110 behind it.
Saturday, February 17, 2018
Friday, February 16, 2018
'Wagons de chemin de fer à Arles', by Vincent van Gogh, 1888
Being nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Film, we went to see Loving Vincent, which is a fully hand-painted look at the end of his life, using his art styles and based on several of his actual paintings, including this one. Worth seeing for the original approach.
Rio Grande SD-50
Built in 1984, on the point of an auto-rack train at Kyune, Utah, in 1989. Next in the lash-up is a Cotton Belt B40-8.
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Fiat railcars in Italy, 1974
