A one off -- info
Thursday, June 30, 2022
1970 Hillman Avenger
"Do you want to eat this first?"
"Sure"
"You like the food?"
"Yeah, but why are we wearing these anachronistic frocks?"
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
East African Railway / Kenya Railways locomotive stamps, 1996
The EAR metre-gauge system also covered Uganda. See earlier posts.
Japanese 2-8-2 with a freight train seen in 1971
The designation consists of a "D" for the four sets of driving wheels and the class number 52 for tender locomotives that the numbers 50 through 99 were assigned to under the 1928 locomotive classification rule.
Seven are preserved.
LNER steamer enters the Bramhope Tunnel, England, 1929
A view of the crenellated north portal by Linda Spashett
Pacific Fruit Express 57ft Reefer box car
At the time this was part of the SP fleet, later the UP fleet.
Monday, June 27, 2022
vessels berthed in Landskrona, Sweden, 1960
This is a town about half way between Malmö and Gothenburg on the Öresund coast.
Sunday, June 26, 2022
General Tires advertisement, 1946
The company was founded in 1915 in Akron, Ohio, and still operates.
Norwegian cargo ship 'Ravnefjell' seen in the mid-1950s
A postcard pic taken in the Welland Canal, Ontario, Canada. This was built in 1937 as Ravnefjell at Nylands Verksted, Oslo for A/S Luksefjell (Olsen & Ugelstad), Oslo, launched on 11/11 1938 and delivered on 24 January 1939. In 1940 Nortraship became managers from April. In January 1955 the ship was sold to Ekerholts Rederi A/S (Birger Ekerholt), Oslo and renamed Ringstein.
In January 1958 she was taken over by Birger Ekerholt, Oslo. In 1959 she was sold to Talamanca Cia. (Cia. Marittima Italiana, Genova, Italy), Panama and renamed Altair. On 11 September 1966 she was wrecked near Achowa Point, Ghana while on a voyage from Messina, Italy to Nigeria with bentonite.
Read more at wrecksite: https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?37440
Saturday, June 25, 2022
Thursday, June 23, 2022
Yugoslavian steam locomotive stamps, 1992
All look like 19th century builds. This must have been one of the last Yugoslav commemorative stamp issues as that year the country violently broke up.
Bäckefors station, Sweden, circa 1936
Cook Strait rail ferry 'Aranui' leaves Wellington mid 1970s
For the full story and lots of pictures, see the book Strait Crossing: the ferries of Cook Strait through time by Victor Young
