Monday, July 31, 2023
mid-1930s Chevrolet bus
Seen on the island of Samsø, Denmark. This was used in the 1963 movie Bussen starring Dirch Passer. Still from this short video
SNCB 2-8-0
An example seen in 1964, location not stated.
Following WW2 a total 300 of the Belgian Type 29 2-8-0 steam locomotives were built 1945--1946 in Canada and the USA . The class was ordered and used to help revive the operations of the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB) under the auspices of what later became known as the Marshall Plan.Final withdrawal from service took place in 1967
One member of the class, no. 29.013, has been preserved by the NMBS/SNCB for display at Train World, the Belgian national railway museum at Schaarbeek railway station in north-central Brussels.
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Sunday, July 30, 2023
Saturday, July 29, 2023
Irish restored 2-6-4T locomotive Class 5 'Drumboe'
More data here. Pic from the Donegal Railway Heritage Centre Facebook page.
Percival Proctor single-engined, low-wing monoplane over Waikato, NZ, 1948
The model was discontinued in 1955 after 1,143 were built.
Air Union poster, 1920s
Advertising a ticket outlet in central London. Air Union was established in 1923 and 10 years later merged with 4 other airlines to form Air France.
Friday, July 28, 2023
Thursday, July 27, 2023
MAV class 424 4-8-0
Export variants of this type were operated on the Czechoslovak, Yugoslav, Soviet and Korean Railways.
This particular one, 424,247 was shopped in 1955, and although steam traction in Hungary ended in 1984 for regular trains, the locomotive remained in operation as a heritage vehicle. After a grand overhaul it's seen here departing Nyugati pályaudvar with a chartered train in May 2015.
V/Line sand hopper train, 1986
Adelaide Red Hen
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
activity at Rutherglen Station, Victoria, 1907
The Wahgunyah line was opened as a whole from Springhurst to Wahgunyah in 1879. The passenger service was withdrawn on 13 April 1962, the last branch line mixed train to operate in Victoria. A crossover between No. 2 and 3 tracks was abolished in 1973.The station officially closed on 10 April 1978. The following year, in 1979, the goods shed was demolished.
Freight services were suspended in 1995, with the line practically closed. The 'Green Trail Associates Group' operated a trolley service over the line between Wahgunyah and Rutherglen for a number of years, known as the 'Stringybark Express – Lil Red Postal Motor'. In 2002, the line was handed back to the Victorian Government by lease holder Freight Australia, and in 2006, it was announced that the Murray to the Mountains Rail Trail would be built along the closed line, with 9 km of trail. (Wikipedia)
Tskaltubo Train Station, Georgia
Not Georgia in the USA but the former Soviet state. There are still trains through here, but the station, like most of the once grandiose Soviet elites spa town is now semi-abandoned.
Sydney Harbour ferry 'Kooleen'
When the Sydney Harbour Transport Board took over the Sydney Ferries Limited business in July 1951, it inherited an old fleet in need of replacement. In 1954, an order was placed with the State Dockyard for a prototype new type of ferry. Delivered in 1956, the Kooleen was fully enclosed single-deck ferry with a high all-round view bridge. This was not popular with her passengers, who were used to double deck ferries with outdoor areas and thus no more were ordered. It would not be until the 1968 arrival of the Lady Cutler that renewal of the fleet would commence.[1][2]
The Kooleen remained in service until it was withdrawn in May 1985. In 1986 it was sold and converted to a houseboat. After sinking several times, it was sold in 2003 with the proposal of it being sunk as a dive vessel. However this was not to eventuate, and after sinking again in Berrys Bay it was broken up on site in July 2006.
(from Wikipedia)
Sunday, July 23, 2023
Bishkek railway station, Kyrgyzstan
Bishkek is the capital of this former Soviet Republic. Bishkek-2 (Бишкек 2) is the train station located in the city center. Design and construction of the building began in the 1930s and the work was completed in two years. The opening took place on 1 May 1938. Bishkek-1 railway station is located in the western part of the city.
Saturday, July 22, 2023
giant German WW2 rail gun Dora (Schwerer Gustav)
Gustav was later deployed in the Soviet Union during the Battle of Sevastopol, part of Operation Barbarossa, where, among other things, it destroyed a munitions depot located roughly 30 m (98 ft) below ground level. The gun was moved to Leningrad, and may have been intended to be used in the Warsaw Uprising like other German heavy siege pieces, but the uprising was crushed before it could be prepared to fire. Gustav was destroyed by the Germans near the end of the war in 1945 to avoid capture by the Soviet Red Army.
This is available as a 1:72 scale model -- details.
Friday, July 21, 2023
Fiat test track on the roof of the Lingotto Building, Turin, 1929
The building was inaugurated in 1923 and housed a car factory -- the World's largest at the time -- for Italian automotive company Fiat. Today it houses the administrative headquarters of the manufacturer and a multipurpose centre. The roof race track is 1.5 km long. It is no longer used, but it is still there and can be visited.
Thursday, July 20, 2023
Toronto, Canada, PCC trolley
Looking west on Queen Street, York Street the first intersection on the left. No date - 1980s?
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
PRR 0-4-0
